Secret Lives of Great Authors

With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough questions your high school teachers were afraid to ask: What''s the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? How many women—and men—did Lord Byron actually sleep with? And why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie''s Angels? Classic literature was never this much fun in school!Authors included:William ShakespeareLord ByronHonoré de BalzacEdgar Allan PoeCharles DickensThe Brontë SistersHenry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanLeo TolstoyEmily DickinsonLewis CarrollLouisa May AlcottMark TwainOscar WildeArthur Conan DoyleW.B. YeatsH.G. WellsGertrude SteinJack LondonVirginia WoolfJames JoyceFranz KafkaT.S. EliotAgatha ChristieJ.R.R. TolkienF. Scott FitzgeraldWilliam FaulknerErnest HemingwayAyn RandJean-Paul SartreRichard WrightWilliam BurroughsCarson McCullersJ.D. SalingerJack KerouacKurt VonnegutToni MorrisonSylvia PlathThomas Pynchon