Portal:Literature/Did you know/15

... that John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is one of only seven printed works he acknowledged authorship of?
... that Amir Hamzah left one of his fifty poems in his prison cell before being executed?
... that the Hongwu Emperor was so fond of Gao Ming's play The Lute that he ordered it to be performed every day at court?
... that both the Star Trek novels The Tears of the Singers and Uhura's Song included Uhura as a main character as the authors thought she was underdeveloped in the show?
... that author Colum McCann described the subject of his 2003 novel Dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, as "a monster"?