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

Name: Secret Lives of Great Authors What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
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ISBN: 9781594742118

ISBN-10: 1594742111

ISBN-13: 9781594742118

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert Schnakenberg, Mario Zucca

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In the tradition of Quirk's bestselling Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents (100,000+ copies in print), here are outrageous and uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts. Consider: Edgar Allan Poe was kicked out of West Point Military Academy. Louisa May Alcott was addicted to opium. W. B. Yeats paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum. J. R. R. Tolkien slept in his bathroom. Kurt Vonnegut managed a Saab dealership before hitting the big time. With chapters on everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication date: 2/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English