Written lives
By: Javier Marias ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull.
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Authors -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
First sentence: The idea for this book arose from another in which I was also involved: an anthology of very strange stories entitled Cuentos unicos (Unique Tales---published in 1989 by Ediciones Siruela, Madrid), in which each story was prefaced by a brief biographical note about its extremely obscure author.
Description: <i>Written Lives</i> is a gallery of mini-bibliographies of twenty great world authors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.