Name: Secret Lives of Great Authors
ISBN: 9781594742118

Robert Schnakenberg

Presents profiles and little-known facts about more than forty authors, from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon.

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

Secret Lives of Great Authors

Andrada D

Well. This went better than expected.
I was a bit disappointed this book was not by far as juicy as expected. 

I thought I will be thoroughly entertained. Instead, the book required the readers to have some literary knowledge or it would have been just a bore. 
The author provides an informative account in an easy to comprehend manner which, contrary to the opinion which may be derived from the statements on the cover, was still considerate towards the people described. 

Gently mocking them, the book makes them seem approachable, proving how even the most brilliant of minds had either less than extraordinary or quite outrageous lives.

Secret Lives of Great Authors What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights