Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights...

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Robert Schnakenberg Mario Zucca

Secret Lives of Great Authors

What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights

Robert Schnakenberg, Mario Zucca

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Quirk Books
01 July 2008

Literary studies: general; Fiction & Literature; Humour

Series: Secret Lives

The strange-but-true tales of therumors, idiosyncrasies, and feuds of literary legends-including Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, and more

This fascinating-and shocking!-tour through the lives of classic literature icons is the perfect stocking stuffer for book lovers and fans of little-known history.

With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough questions your high school teachers were afraid to ask- What's the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? How many women-and men-did Lord Byron actually sleep with? And why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie's Angels? Classic literature was never this much fun in school!

Authors included-

William Shakespeare

Lord Byron

Honore de Balzac

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Dickens

The Bronte Sisters

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Leo Tolstoy

Emily Dickinson

Lewis Carroll

Louisa May Alcott

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

Arthur Conan Doyle

W.B. Yeats

H.G. Wells

Gertrude Stein

Jack London

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

Franz Kafka

T.S. Eliot

Agatha Christie

J.R.R. Tolkien

F. Scott Fitzgerald

William Faulkner

Ernest Hemingway

Ayn Rand

Jean-Paul Sartre

Richard Wright

William Burroughs

Carson McCullers

J.D. Salinger

Jack Kerouac

Kurt Vonnegut

Toni Morrison

Sylvia Plath

Thomas Pynchon

By: Robert Schnakenberg
Illustrated by: Mario Zucca
Imprint: Quirk Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781594742118
ISBN 10: 1594742111
Series: Secret Lives
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 July 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Schnakenberg is the author of several nonfiction books.