From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni
Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world's
greatest writers.
Introduced with a stunning portrait of
each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace
the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and
influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life
characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. Each entry
explains how the person's writing developed during their lifetime, and
sets it in context, conveying a powerful sense of the place and the
period of history in which they lived.
Lavishly illustrated with
photographs and paintings of writers' homes, studies, and personal
artifacts--along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions,
and their correspondence--this book introduces the key ideas, themes,
and literary techniques of each writer, revealing the imaginations and
personalities behind some of the world's greatest novels, short stories,
poems, and plays. Covering an eclectic range of authors from the Middle
Ages to the present day, Writers provides a compelling glimpse of the lives and loves of each great writer.
