Lives of the Writers

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This book gives faces to household names - Rated
We've all read Little Women or Call of the Wild, but the names Louisa May Alcott and Jack London seem like names you only hear in English class. But did you know Alcott had a crush on Henry David Thoreau or that neighborhood children would cry upon meeting her? Or Jack London wrote on an old typewriter that cut his fingers and kept the neighbors up (truly a labor of love since he would do this for 15 hours a day)? Or Carl Sandburg was arrested at the age of 14 for swimming nude in a city pond? This book humorously tells the story of popular writers lives, from Murasaki Shikibu (1025) to Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991), putting to rest the myth that writers lead quiet, mousy, lives. If you want to know what Jane Austen ate for breakfast or why Mark Twain would scream curses so loudly that the whole neighborhood awoke, Read Lives of Writers Comedies, Tragedies (and what the neighbors thought).