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Secret Lives of Great Authors

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Secret Lives of Great Authors

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

Robert SchnakenbergSeries: Secret Lives

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304

Year

2014

Language

English

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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

Honoré de Balzac

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Dickens

The Brontë 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

Related Subjects

Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography
Adult Nonfiction
Humor (Literary Criticism)
Literary Criticism
Trivia
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Humor (Adult Nonfiction)

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