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Lives of the Writers
Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
Book - 1994
Shakespeare wrote with a feather quill and ink; Emily Dickinson wrote with a fountain pen; Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote on a Yiddish typewriter. But what did such writers do when they weren't writing? What did Jane Austen eat for breakfast? What could make Mark Twain throw his shirts out the window? Why would Zora Neale Hurston punch a fellow elevator passenger? Lives of the Writers tells all that and more.
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Publisher:
San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, c1994
Edition:
1st ed. --
ISBN:
9780152480097
0152480099
0152480099
Branch Call Number:
J 809 Krull 05jv 01
Characteristics:
96 p. :,col. ill. ;,27 cm
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readingfairy
Jun 14, 2018
Short biographies about the lives of:
Murasaki Shikibu
Miguel de Cervantes
William Shakespeare
Jane Austen
Hans Christian Andersen
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
Charlotte and Emily Brontë
Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jack London
Carl Sandburg
E.B. White
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Add a CommentShort but informative biographies on various writers, some famous, some not so much.
It's been very interesting to read and learn more about lives of the writers and I'll look out for some of Kathleen Krull's other "Lives of" books.
Engaging biographies of famous writers with little details that will surprise and entertain. I really enjoyed this book as it gave me a deeper appreciation for the books that the famous writers wrote.