Portal:Literature/Did you know/4

... that Meralda Warren and several children on Pitcairn Island wrote the first book published in both English and Pitkern, a South Pacific creole language?
... that octogenarian poet Joyce La Mers donated $500,000 to Light Quarterly, the US's only literary magazine devoted to light verse?
... that the non-fiction book The Siege: The Attack on the Taj is set during the 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that Lancelot de Carle, an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn, wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
... that writer Hu Yepin was betrayed by rival communists, arrested by the British police, and executed by the Kuomintang?