Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors

Authors: Shaffer, Andrew
Publisher: Harper Perennial
BISAC/Subject: LIT000000
ISBN: 9780062077295, Related ISBNs: 0062077295, 9780062077288, 9780062077295
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 320,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Andrew Shaffer's Literary Rogues is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis.

Literary Rogues is a wildly funny and illuminating history and analysis of the bad boys and girls of lit, from the author of Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Part nostalgia, part serious history of Western literary movements, Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors is a raucous celebration of oft-vilified writers and their work, brimming with interviews, research, and personality.

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