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Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
Shakespeare wrote with a feather quill and ink, Emily Dickinson wrote with a fountain pen, and Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote using a Yiddish typewriter, but what did famous writer like this do when the weren't writing? What did they like to eat, what kinds of hobbies did they have, who had a bad temper, and who believed that Fridays were lucky . . . ?
Learn how your favourite authors of classic literature worked from Cervantes to E.B. White with Lives of the Writers, which takes readers into the personal world of famous authors with short biographies into how they lived and worked, how they viewed the literary world, how their neighbors viewed them, and a whole host of other interesting eccentricities worth knowing about.