The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations
Before
Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara
?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all lovers of language and literature, it reveals in short, pithy chapters, the lives, loves, motivations, and quirky, fascinating details involving fifty of the best-loved books of the Western world.
- When stacked up, the original manuscript of
Gone With the Wind
stood taller than Margaret Mitchell, its 4' 9 1/2" author
- Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was part of the Allied team that cracked the Nazi's Enigma code
- Leo Tolstoy's wife copied
War and Peace
by hand . . . seven times
From
The Great Gatsby
to Harper Lee, from
Jaws
to J. K . Rowling,
Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara
? offers an entertaining and informative journey through the minds of writers and the life experiences that took these amazing works from notion to novel.