Product Description: Strange-but-true tales of murderers, adulterers, drug addicts, and other literary legends.   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...read more

Product Description: More than a hundred wonderful and sensitive duotone portraits of our major novelists, poets, and playwrights.Paired with the photographs are fascinating texts from each writer on writing-thoughts on the craft, recollections of significant moments from their personal history, meditations on the civic importance of writing, and so forth...read more

Lush full-color photography combines with essays from some of America's leading nature writers in an evocative celebration of America's natural wonders, with contributions from Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland, Art Wolfe, Scott Russell Sanders, George Huey, Linda Hogan, and others. 20,000 first printing.

Full-color photography combines with essays from some of America's leading nature writers in a celebration of America's natural wonders.

Anecdotes humorously illuminate the lives and idiosyncrasies of more than one hundred and forty American writers from Anne Bradstreet to Sylvia Plath

Charts, lists, biographical profiles, quotations, chronologies, anecdotes, and compilations of facts and trivia explore all aspects of American literature