Writers gone wild
Subtitle: the feuds, frolics, and follies of literature's great adventurers, drunkards, lovers, iconoclasts, and misanthropes
By: Bill Peschel
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Perigee
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780399536182
Subjects: Miscellanea; Literary curiosa; Authors
Description: Delivers true tales of writers behaving badly, including Dylan Thomas dodging machine-gun bullets, Dashiell Hammett hiring a Chinese prostitute to break up S. J. Perelman's marriage, and Richard Ford spitting on a book critic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-248) and index.