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Timothy Gray approved Kelly M’s request to change the title of Secret Lives of Great Authors 6 days ago.
Title: Secret Lives of GreatAuthors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and PlaywrightsAuthors
Subtitle: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights ( see Timothy Gray’s edits | report abuse ) -
Kelly M changed the title of Secret Lives of Great Authors 7 days ago.
Title: Secret Lives of GreatAuthors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and PlaywrightsAuthors
Subtitle: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights Timothy Gray approved this request. ( see Kelly M’s edits | report abuse ) -
Kate F edited the characters of Secret Lives of Great Authors Sunday, August 16 2009.
- Changed the section title:
Cast of Characters/ImportantImportant People - Added a character: Lord Byron
- Added a character: Honore de Balzac
- Added a character: Edgar Allan Poe
- Added a character: Charles Dickens
- Added the description of The Bronte Sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne
- marked the description of The Bronte Sisters as not a spoiler
- Added a character: Henry David Thoreau
- Added a character: Walt Whitman
- Added a character: Leo Tolstoy
- Added a character: Emily Dickinson
- Added a character: Lewis Carroll
- Added a character: Louisa May Alcott
- Added a character: Mark Twain
- Added a character: Oscar Wilde
- Added a character: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Added a character: W.B. Yeats
- Added a character: H.G. Wells
- Added a character: Gertrude Stein
- Added a character: Jack London
- Added a character: Virginia Woolf
- Added a character: James Joyce
- Added a character: Franz Kafka
- Added a character: T.S. Eliot
- Added a character: Agatha Christie
- Added a character: J.R.R. Tolkien
- Added a character: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Added a character: William Faulkner
- Added a character: Ernest Hemingway
- Added a character: Ayn Rand
- Added a character: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Added a character: Richard Wright
- Added a character: William S. Burroughs
- Added a character: Carson McCullers
- Added a character: J.D. Salinger
- Added a character: Jack Kerouac
- Added a character: Kurt Vonnegut
- Added a character: Toni Morrison
- Added a character: Sylvia Plath
- Added a character: Thomas Pynchon
- Changed the section title:
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Kate F edited the characters of Secret Lives of Great Authors Sunday, August 16 2009.
- Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
- Added a character: William Shakespeare
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Shelfari edited the description of Secret Lives of Great Authors Sunday, August 2 2009.
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 questions your teachers were afraid to answer: What's the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? Why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie's Angels ? The classics were never this much fun in school!
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Secret Lives of Great Authors Monday, July 27 2009.
- Added a contributor: Robert Schnackenberg: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Secret Lives of Great Authors Friday, July 17 2009.
- April 23 is one of the most joyous—and saddest—days in literary history.
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