An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird.
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird.
John Gross is the editor of The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, The Oxford Book of Essays, After Shakespeare, and many other publications. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, and is currently theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph.
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* The subjects of the anecdotes include all the major British American and Commonwealth writers starting with Chaucer Sir Thomas More and Sir Walter Raleigh then Shakespeare Jonson Donne Milton Johnson Swift Pope Hume Edmund Burke Gibbon Jefferson the Romantics Fenimore Cooper Macaulay Emerson Hawthorne Longfellow Abraham Lincoln Margaret Fuller Harriet Beecher Stowe Thoreau Douglass Melville Whitman Dickens Austen the Brontes Twain Edith Wharton Stephen Crane Cather Robert Frost Carson McCuller Salinger Mailer Larkin Vonnegut Burroughs Bellow Churchill James Baldwin Tom Wolfe Updike Philip Roth Wole Soyinka Les Murray Margaret Atwood Stoppard Coetzee Chatwin Bob Dylan Rushdie McEwan Amis Jeanette Winterson etc * Authors of the anecdotes are equally diverse from the diarists John Aubrey John Evelyn and James Boswell to fellow writers e.g. Wodehouse Auden Harriet Martineau Walter Scott Evelyn Waugh Vanessa Bell; modern biographers such as Selina Hastings journals and radio interviews.
* The subjects of the anecdotes include all the major British American and Commonwealth writers starting with Chaucer Sir Thomas More and Sir Walter Raleigh then Shakespeare Jonson Donne Milton Johnson Swift Pope Hume Edmund Burke Gibbon Jefferson the Romantics Fenimore Cooper Macaulay Emerson Hawthorne Longfellow Abraham Lincoln Margaret Fuller Harriet Beecher Stowe Thoreau Douglass Melville Whitman Dickens Austen the Brontes Twain Edith Wharton Stephen Crane Cather Robert Frost Carson McCuller Salinger Mailer Larkin Vonnegut Burroughs Bellow Churchill James Baldwin Tom Wolfe Updike Philip Roth Wole Soyinka Les Murray Margaret Atwood Stoppard Coetzee Chatwin Bob Dylan Rushdie McEwan Amis Jeanette Winterson etc * Authors of the anecdotes are equally diverse from the diarists John Aubrey John Evelyn and James Boswell to fellow writers e.g. Wodehouse Auden Harriet Martineau Walter Scott Evelyn Waugh Vanessa Bell; modern biographers such as Selina Hastings journals and radio interviews.
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