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Secret Lives of Great Authors

Paperback • 2008 • English

Secret Lives of Great Authors

By Robert Schnakenberg

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About the book

Now it's time to leave the history classroom and go down the hall to the English lesson. "Secret Lives of Great Authors" contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of all the writers you were forced to read in school, from Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson to J. D. Salinger and Sylvia Plath. And guess what? These people were more interesting than your teachers ever let on...Franz Kafka chewed his food 45 times before swallowing. W. B. Yeats paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum. ...Show more

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ISBN

9781594742118

Publisher

Quirk Books

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Secret Lives of Great Authors

Format

Paperback

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