The Great Composer Quiz – June 15, 2020
Father’s Day Week Edition
This Great Composer’s father was shy and bookish in his youth, and while young wrote seven novels (none were published). He was too improvised to obtain a higher education. When he married he invested in a small grocery store and he and his wife moved there. Illness caused him to quit working in the store, so his wife took over. When his wife became pregnant he was forced to start a publishing business. He published mostly his own books – they were of the Gothic horror variety, reworkings of old folk tales that included magic, intrigue and violence – but his most lucrative enterprise to was publish an Addressbook that listed businesses, factories, shops and homes in the region. So who was this man whose source of income was to become a source of info, this Great Composer’s Father?