31.   For nearly eight years, through undergraduate and graduate degrees in music education and English literature, he played in a band called And How.

32.   For once, Porterfield, whose specialty is English literature, had nothing to do with her words.

33.   He has an oddly engaging way of finding superbly apt quotations from English literature.

34.   Haut-Brion may well have been the first brand-name wine to make it into English literature.

35.   He attended Kenyon College, where, after forgetting to study for a test in medieval English literature, he made up a wild story about dragons.

36.   He graduated from Hofstra College with honors in English literature, and from New York University Law School, where he was editor of the law review.

37.   He enrolled at UCLA and took some film classes but actually graduated with a degree in English literature and creative writing.

38.   He made English literature his major when he decided to go to college at night while working at the Albany Times Union.

39.   He started out majoring in English literature, and was fascinated by the medieval English poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer.

40.   He studied English literature at Harvard University, and wrote stories, poems, essays and reviews for the Harvard Lampoon.