Fitzgerald, we also learn from this terrific American Scholar piece, was also paid no less than $1,000 per week during his Hollywood years and had an annual income of roughly $500,000 a year when adjusted for inflation.

Karl Marx, communism's founding father, famously had some problems with the way we all Do Money.

Jane Austen bore the financial risks of publishing her books, and insisted on remaining anonymous as she quietly wrote books in her cottage.

The Believer has unearthed a little-seen 1981 documentary called "Two Cops" that was made by filmmaker Nina Sinclair and produced by Sunset Television.

About his prosecution, Ms Archer told the BBC: “It’s one of the things that we’ve forgotten about Shakespeare.

“As well as writing for people who were experiencing hunger, he was exploiting that need himself.

“He was using his role as a playwright and the public playhouses, gathering coin, in order to take advantage of the market when it’s at its most profitable, and selling food at inflated prices to secure the long-term future for his family.”

Over the course of 15 years, William Shakespeare bought and hoarded grain, malt, and barley so he could resell it at inflated prices to his neighbors, which researchers say he did to ensure that his family would not go hungry. [via]

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How did an animal related to the dinosaurs become a food item commonly picked up at grocery stores and found on dinner tables around the world (KFC rules the fast food market in China)?