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Lives of the Writers
by Krull, Kathleen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0152010327
- ISBN 13
- 9780152010324
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, New York, 1994. Fine/Unknown. Kathryn Hewitt. Quarto, hardcover, fine in burgundy pictorial boards with matching dj, also fine with writers' faces on cover. Giftable. 96 pages. In this entertaining, informative collection, readers discover the idiosyncrasies-sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic-of 16 famous writers, including Mark Twain, Singer, Burnett, Austen, Hughes, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hurston, London, Sandburg, Bronte, Alcott, E. B. White, Dickens, Shikibu and Poe.
Synopsis
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, including plenty about writing, how these writers viewed the world of literature--and how their neighbors viewed them. In this offering from the highly praised Lives Of . . . series, Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt offer the inside schoop on twenty literary luminaties. Even famous writers are real people with odd habits, secret hopes, dismal failures, and wild successes; Lives of the Writers reveals it all with wit and style.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28425
- Title
- Lives of the Writers
- Author
- Krull, Kathleen
- Illustrator
- Kathryn Hewitt
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0152010327
- ISBN 13
- 9780152010324
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, New York, 1994
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- July 1995
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