- He is the originator of the now-infamous line "It was a dark and stormy night", often used by Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip "Peanuts", as a classic example of bad writing. It is from the novel "Paul Clifford".
- The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, named in his honor, celebrates deliberately bad writing. Entries are encouraged to be as terrible as possible.
- He was one of Charles Dickens' closest friends and favorite authors. It was Bulwer-Lytton who persuaded Dickens to change the ending of "Great Expectations" from a downbeat ending to a happy one.
- Was made a peer in 1866.
- Father of 1st Earl of Lytton Robert Bulwer-Lytton, and grandfather of 2nd Earl of Lytton Victor Bulwer-Lytton.
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