Secret Lives of Great Authors What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights

You laughed at Secret Lives of the Presidents (85,000 copies sold and now in its 12th printing).You cried at Secret Lives of the First Ladies (25,000 copies sold and now in its 3rd printing).Now it's time to leave the history classroom and go down the hall to English 101. Secret Lives of Great Authors contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of all the writers you were forced to read in high school. And guess what? These folks were more interesting than your teachers ever let on.What was J. D. Salinger's beverage of choice? It sure wasn't lemonade.

Robert Schnakenbrt is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York.