**The strange-but-true tales of the rumors, idiosyncrasies, and feuds of literary legends—including Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, and more

This fascinating—and shocking!—tour through the lives of classic literature icons is the perfect stocking stuffer for book lovers and fans of little-known history.**

With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough questions your high school teachers were afraid to ask: What’s the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? How many women—and men—did Lord Byron actually sleep with? And why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie’s Angels? Classic literature was never this much fun in school!

Authors included:

William Shakespeare

Lord Byron

Honoré de Balzac

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Dickens

The Brontë Sisters

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Leo Tolstoy

Emily Dickinson

Lewis Carroll

Louisa May Alcott

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

Arthur Conan Doyle

W.B. Yeats

H.G. Wells

Gertrude Stein

Jack London

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

Franz Kafka

T.S. Eliot

Agatha Christie

J.R.R. Tolkien

F. Scott Fitzgerald

William Faulkner

Ernest Hemingway

Ayn Rand

Jean-Paul Sartre

Richard Wright

William Burroughs

Carson McCullers

J.D. Salinger

Jack Kerouac

Kurt Vonnegut

Toni Morrison

Sylvia Plath

Thomas Pynchon