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Secret Lives of Great Authors

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

9781594742118

Quirk Books - c/o Chronicle Books
Available: 02/01/08
5.34 x 8.08 · 304 pages
9781594742118
CDN $22.50 · pb

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Robert Schnakenberg

You laughed at Secret Lives of the Presidents (85,000 copies sold and now in its 12th printing).
You cried at Secret Lives of the First Ladies (25,000 copies sold and now in its 3rd printing).
Now it's time to leave the history classroom and go down the hall to English 101. Secret Lives of Great Authors contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of all the writers you were forced to read in high school. And guess what? These folks were more interesting than your teachers ever let on.
What was J. D. Salinger's beverage of choice? It sure wasn't lemonade.

ROBERT SCHNAKENBERG (New York City) is the author of several nonfiction books.