Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lo Vers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes

by Bill Peschel

A fascinating look at some of the world's greatest writers behaving badly, which includes such bizarre but true tales as the night Dashiell Hammett hired a Chinese prostitute to break up S.J. Perelman's marriage; why Richard Ford spat on a book critic; why Ernest Hemingway fought a book critic, a modernist poet and Nazi subs; why women's breasts sent Percy Bysshe Shelley screaming from a room and the night a drunken Dylan Thomas dodged machine gun bullets. Writers Gone Wild rips back the covers and reveals the seamy, wacky underside of the writing life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399536183
• ISBN13: 9780399536182
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Tarcherperigee
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher