A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year
Author(s): Tom Nissley
Book connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers' lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, embarrassments and achievements. Each handsome page in A Reader's Book of Days is devoted to a day of the year, featuring original accounts of events in the lives of great writers (Proust starting In Search of Lost Time, Conrad defending the crew of the Titanic) and fictional events that took place within beloved books (the birth of Harry Potter's enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King's Carrie).
Product Information
Tom Nissley is an eight-time champion of the American game show Jeopardy! and was formerly an Amazon book editor. He holds a PhD in English literature.
General Fields
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- : WW Norton & Co
- : WW Norton & Co
- : 01 November 2013
- : 235mm X 156mm
- : United States
- : 01 November 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tom Nissley
- : Hardback
- : Joanna Neborsky
- : 809
- : 464
- : 100 illustrations