Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

Contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of writers you were forced to read in school, from Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson to JD Salinger and Sylvia Plath. It covers Franz Kafka, who chewed his food 45 times before swallowing; WB Yeats, who paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum; and, JRR Tolkien, who slept in his bathroom.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents, Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre...

  • 1594742111
  • 9781594742118
  • Robert Schnakenberg
  • 28 January 2008
  • Quirk Books,US
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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