| Description |
[112] p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Homer -- The Bronte sisters -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Anton Chekhov -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Abraham Lincoln -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Grimm brothers -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Jack Kerouac -- Lady Gregory -- Tennessee Williams -- Sean O'Casey -- Gabriela Mistral -- Isak Dinesen -- William Shakespeare -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- William Inge -- Dante Alighieri -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Dashiell Hammett -- Federico Garcia Lorca -- William Butler Yeats -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Helen Keller -- George Sand -- E.B. White -- Pablo Neruda -- Beatrix Potter -- Alice James -- Louise Bogan -- Dorothy Parker -- Theodore Dreiser -- Richard Wright -- Samuel Johnson -- Upton Sinclair -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- Damon Runyon -- Arthur Rimbaud -- Evelyn Waugh -- Will Rogers -- Margaret Mitchell -- Marianne Moore -- Mark Twain -- Emily Dickinson -- Jane Austen -- Matthew Arnold -- Frances Steloff. |
| Summary |
"Includes 53 original essays chronicling the lives and careers of writers throughout history"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Subject |
Authors -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Stainton, Leslie, 1955-
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Inge, William.
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| Cover Title |
Cover title: On writers & writing : 1992 desk diary |
| ISBN |
1559490942 |
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9781559490948 |
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