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1. This playwright had to live with the knowledge that the medication administered to his mother during his birth pushed her into a lifelong problem with drug addiction. This was dramatized in his most famous work.
2. This writer was accused of treason and was ultimately hospitalized for mental instability.
3. This poet is said to have been born with a clubfoot.
4. Writers are told to write from their own first-hand experiences. Nevertheless, this writer wrote about the horror of war before ever seeing combat.
5. Which writer was NOT hospitalized for mental or emotional problems?
6. Strange as it may seem, it appears that this Elizabethan writer may also have been a spy.
7. This musician had an affair with the legendary George Sand.
8. This great thinker and philosopher was castrated for his romantic involvement with a woman.
9. The response to the last novel by this author was so great that he turned his back on fiction and embraced poetry.
10. This writer was placed in jail briefly for refusing to pay a tax
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