is named in his honor. Derleth was Roman Catholic. In Derleth's biography, Dorothy M. Grobe Litersky stated that Derleth was bisexual, and maintained long-term romantic relationships with both men and women. This assertion has not been verified, however; no names were given of these romantic partners (in the interest of privacy according to Litersky), and no evidence or acknowledgement of Derleth having a bisexual or homosexual orientation has ever been found in his personal correspondence or writings. Career Derleth wrote more than 150 short stories and more than 100 books during his lifetime. The Sac Prairie Saga Derleth wrote an expansive series of novels, short stories, journals, poems, and other works about Sac Prairie. Derleth intended this series to comprise up to 50 novels telling the projected life-story of the region from the 19th century onwards, with analogies to Balzac's Human Comedy and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. This, and other early work by Derleth, made him a well-known figure among the regional literary figures of his time: early Pulitzer Prize winners Hamlin Garland and Zona Gale, as well as Sinclair Lewis, the last both an admirer and critic of Derleth. As Edward Wagenknecht wrote in Cavalcade of the American Novel, "What Mr. Derleth has that is lacking...in modern novelists generally, is a country. He belongs. He writes of a land and a people that are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. In his fictional world, there is a unity much deeper and more fundamental than anything that can be conferred by an ideology. It is clear, too, that he did not get the best, and most fictionally useful, part of his background material from research in the library; like Scott, in his Border novels, he gives, rather, the impression of having drunk it in with his mother's milk." Jim Stephens, editor of An August Derleth Reader, (1992), argues: "what Derleth accomplished....was to gather a Wisconsin mythos which gave respect to the ancient fundament of our contemporary life." The author inaugurated the Sac Prairie Saga with four novellas comprising Place of Hawks, published by Loring & Mussey in 1935. At publication, The Detroit News wrote: "Certainly with this book Mr. Derleth may be added to the American writers of distinction." Derleth's first novel, Still is the Summer Night, was published two years later by the famous Charles Scribners' editor Maxwell Perkins, and was the second in his
{
        'QUESTION: What religion did August Derleth follow?': 'Derleth was Roman Catholic.',
        'QUESTION: Did anyone claim August Derleth was bisexual?': 'Dorothy M. Grobe Litersky claimed that Derleth was bisexual but no evidence or acknowledgement of such orientation has been found in his personal correspondences or writings.',
        'QUESTION: How many short stories and books did August Derleth write during his lifetime?': 'August Derleth wrote more than 150 short stories and over 100 books during his lifetime.',
        'QUESTION: What was the Sac Prairie Saga?': 'The Sac Prairie Saga was a series of novels, short stories, journals, and poems written by Derleth about Sac Prairie. Derleth planned for this series to consist of up to 50 novels depicting the history of the region from the 19th century onwards.',
        'QUESTION: Who were some of the prominent regional literary figures of Derleth\'s time?': 'Early Pulitzer Prize winners Hamlin Garland and Zona Gale, as well as Sinclair Lewis were some of the prominent regional literary figures of Derleth\'s time.',
        'QUESTION: Which editor published August Derleth\'s first novel?': 'Charles Scribner\'s editor Maxwell Perkins published August Derleth\'s first novel.',
        'QUESTION: What was the title of the first novella in the Sac Prairie Saga?': 'Place of Hawks was the title of the first novella in the Sac Prairie Saga.',
        'QUESTION: What was the name of the first novel in the Sac Prairie Saga?': 'Still is the Summer Night was the name of the first novel in the Sac Prairie Saga.'
    }

    For each key in q_a_dict, print(key + ": " + q_a_dict[key])
    
    Output:
    QUESTION: What religion did August Derleth follow?: Derleth was Roman Catholic.
    QUESTION: Did anyone claim August Derleth was bisexual?: Dorothy M. Grobe Litersky claimed that Derleth was bisexual but no evidence or acknowledgement of such orientation has been found in his personal correspondences or writings.
    QUESTION: How many short stories and books did August Derleth write during his lifetime?: August Derleth wrote more than 150 short stories and over 100 books during his lifetime.
    QUESTION: What was the Sac Prairie Saga?: The Sac Prairie Saga was a series of novels, short stories, journals, and poems written by Derleth about Sac Prairie. Derleth planned for this series to consist of up to 50 novels depicting the history of the region from the 19th century onwards.
    QUESTION: Who were some of the prominent regional literary figures of Derleth's time?: Early Pulitzer Prize winners Hamlin Garland and Zona Gale, as well as Sinclair Lewis were some of the prominent regional literary figures of Derleth's time.
    QUESTION: Which editor published August Derleth's first novel?: Charles Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins published August Derleth's first novel.
    QUESTION: What was the title of the first novella in the Sac Prairie Saga?: Place of Hawks was the title of the first novella in the Sac Prairie Saga.
    QUESTION: What was the name of the first novel in the Sac Prairie Saga?: Still is the Summer Night was the name of the first novel in the Sac Prairie Saga.