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Secret Lives of Great Authors

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


  • Quirk
  • by Robert Schnakenberg
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!

ISBN 9781594742118 | E | PB
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Publisher Quirk
ISBN 9781594742118
Author(s) Robert Schnakenberg
Publication date February 2008
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 203 x 133 mm
Pages 304
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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Now it's time to leave the history classroom and go down the hall to the English lesson. "Secret Lives of Great Authors" contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of all the writers you were forced to read in school, from Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson to J. D. Salinger and Sylvia Plath. And guess what? These people were more interesting than your teachers ever let on...Franz Kafka chewed his food 45 times before swallowing. W. B. Yeats paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum. J. R. R. Tolkien slept in his bathroom. As a boy, Ernest Hemingway was dressed in girl's clothes by his mother - in fact, she often introduced him as "my daughter."

Secret Lives of Great Authors

Secret Lives of Great Authors

€16.95