Pearls Before Swine: Blts Taste So Darn Good

Rosewater; or, Pearls Before Swine (1965), Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade (1969), Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday! (1973), Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More! (1975), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), and Bluebeard (1987). Lew Wallace (1827–1905) Lewis Wallace was the son of David Wallace, governor of Indiana. His formal education ended at sixteen; though he was an avid reader, he disliked the confinement of the classroom. He served in the Mexican War and the Civil War, rising to the rank of major general. He was admitted to the bar in 1849, was elected to the Senate in 1856, became territorial governor of New Mexico in 1878, and was appointed minister to Turkey in 1881. His novels include The Fair God-816- (1873), about the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and The Prince of India (1893), as well as the best-selling Ben-Hur (1880). Susan B. Warner (1819-85) Born in New York City, Warner lived most of her life in a dilapidated farmhouse on Constitution Island, in the Hudson River near West Point, where she and her sister Anna (under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Wetherell and Amy Lothrop) attempted to generate enough money from their writing to keep pace with their father's improvident investments and litigations ...»