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Zerna Addis Sharp was the creator of the popular “Dick & Jane” picture books for kindergartners. |
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a 19th-century English novelist who’s most famous today for writing some laughably bad text. (“It was a dark and stormy night” is one of the most well-known.) There’s even an annual contest put on by San Jose State University in which participants try to write the worst opening sentence for a novel. |



