Dumas (who loved to out-legend his own legends) denied this. “My valet,” he said, “used to write [my books] for me, but he now pretends that he is also capable of signing them with his own ...

Alec, a co-founder of the Great River Shakespeare Festival, and his mother wrote “The Prodigious Book of Shakespeare Puzzles,” a book of word puzzles, trivia and other games focused ...