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

Informationen zum Autor Robert Schnakenberg is the author of several nonfiction books including Distory: A Treasury of Historical Insults . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.  Klappentext In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents!" Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers! complete with hundreds of little-known! politically incorrect! and downright bizarre facts. Zusammenfassung Contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of writers you were forced to read in school, from Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson to JD Salinger and Sylvia Plath. It covers Franz Kafka, who chewed his food 45 times before swallowing; WB Yeats, who paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum; and, JRR Tolkien, who slept in his bathroom.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robert Schnakenberg, Mario Zucca
• Mitarbeit: Mario Zucca (Illustration)
• Verlag: Quirk Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.2008
• EAN: 9781594742118
• ISBN: 978-1-59474-211-8
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Serien: QUIRK BOOKS; Secret Lives; Secret Lives
• Thema: Belletristik > Comic, Cartoon, Humor, Satire > Humor, Satire, Kabarett