If you could have lunch with three famous people - dead or alive - who would they be? And what would you discuss with them?

Jim Vuksic Ms. Zigler,
The three would be Socrates, William Shakespeare, and Mary Ann
Evans.
I would let Socrates know how much I admire the sense of honor and courage that inspired him to choose a mandatory sentence of death by suicide rather than compromise his principles.

I would ask William Shakespeare which works, attributed to him today, were not actually written by him, and if granted the opportunity, would he come forward and set the record straight, even if it would diminish his standing somewhat within the literary community.

I would ask Mary Ann Evans how much it bothered her to have to write under the pseudonym George Eliot due to the prejudice against female authors during the 19th century, and how many of her close friends knew at the time that George Eliot was actually she.

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