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Description
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... read more
Important People
- William Shakespeare: Add a description of this character.
- Lord Byron
- Honore de Balzac
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Charles Dickens
- The Bronte Sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne
- Henry David Thoreau
- Walt Whitman
- Leo Tolstoy
- Emily Dickinson
- Lewis Carroll
- Louisa May Alcott
- Mark Twain
- Oscar Wilde
- Sir 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 S. Burroughs
- Carson McCullers
- J.D. Salinger
- Jack Kerouac
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Toni Morrison
- Sylvia Plath
- Thomas Pynchon
First Sentence
April 23 is one of the most joyous—and saddest—days in literary history.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Robert Schnackenberg (Author)
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