Secret Lives of Great Authors
The title of this entry is the name of the book I just finished reading, which my dear friend Carly gave me for Christmas. It was a quick, fun (and funny) read, and I may just use it for a Suite 101 article or two. Here are some of my favourites:
- Thoreau invented raisin bread.
- It is thanks to Lewis Carroll that books’ titles are printed down their spines.
- Walt Whitman donated his brain to science, but a technician dropped the Walt Whitman brain all over the floor.
- Dickens could only sleep with his head facing the North Pole.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald had a foot fetish.
- Salinger tried to treat his family’s ailments with acupuncture, except he used wooden dowels.
- James Joyce was mad pervy.
My only complaint with the book was the concentration of authors from mostly the States and the UK. I’m sure the term “great authors” is one that’s never easy to define and one probably can’t fit in all the authors one would like to, but was there really not even one Canadian? Or anyone from any other country?
Either way. Thanks Carly!
Category: Fiction Writing/Books, General