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While he lay asleep in the middle of the night, someone strung a rope around his neck. And that someone might have been his wife, the quiet and forlorn Minnie Wright. Written in 1916, Susan Glaspellâs one-act play Trifles is loosely based on true events. As a young reporter, Glaspell covered a murder case in a small town in Iowa. Years later, she crafted a short play inspired by her experiences and observations.
The Cat in The Hat was written when Ted took up a bet that he would not be able to write a book using a vocabulary of only 225 words. As a private joke, Bennett Cerf later bet Ted fifty dollars that he couldnât write a book using only fifty different words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham. The book was first read aloud in April 1960 at a small dinner party held for a select group of Random House executives.