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Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
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Series: Lives of . . ., Book 21
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ISBN13: 9780544252882
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: Jul 1 2014
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Discover the bizarre habits, domestic secrets, and outrageous antics of twenty celebrated literary giants.
Shakespeare wrote with a feather quill and ink; Emily Dickinson wrote with a fountain pen; Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote on a Yiddish typewriter. But what did such writers do when they weren't writing?
What did Jane Austen eat for breakfast? What could make Mark Twain throw his shirts out the window? Why would Zora Neale Hurston punch a fellow elevator passenger? Why did Hans Christian Andersen keep a sign by his bed insisting he was only asleep? How did Robert Louis Stevenson jump through a hotel window to meet his future wife?
Charles Dickens paused during public readings to sip champagne and swallow a dozen oysters. Louisa May Alcott escaped into the woods after fourteen hours of scribbling, while Carl Sandburg practiced his lectures to rows of cabbage heads.
Lives of the Writers tells all that and more.
- Books About Famous Authors: Charlotte and Emily Brontë coped with their isolated parsonage by crafting miniature booklets filled with tiny handwriting about imaginary kingdoms.
- Middle Grade Biography: Frances Hodgson Burnett tended three hundred rose bushes in England and wore velvet hats with outrageous feathers while funding her family through relentless storytelling.
- Creative Writing: E. B. White found inspiration for classic animal tales inside his boathouse and allowed hundreds of spider eggs to hatch on top of his dresser.
- True Stories: Edgar Allan Poe navigated crushing debts with only his devoted cat Catterina and caged tropical birds to keep him company during long midnight writing sessions.
- Also by This Author: Lives of the Musicians, Lives of the Artists and Lives of the Presidents.
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