• ISBN13: 9781594742118
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
In the tradition of Quirk’s bestselling Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents (100,000+ copies in print), here are outrageous and uncensored profiles of the world’s greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts. Consider:

Edgar Allan Poe was kicked out of West Point Military Academy.
Louisa May Alcott was addicted to opium.
W. B. Yeats paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his s… More >>

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

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