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Writers: Their Lives and Works

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From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world’s greatest writers.

Introduced with a stunning portrait of Each and every featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired Each and every individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. Each and every entry explains how the individual’s writing developed throughout their lifetime, and sets it in context, conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history during which they lived.

Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers’ homes, studies, and personal artifacts–at the side of pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence–this book introduces the important thing ideas, themes, and literary techniques of Each and every creator, revealing the imaginations and personalities at the back of one of the vital world’s greatest novels, short stories, poems, and plays. Covering an eclectic range of authors from the Middle Ages to the current day, Writers provides a compelling glimpse of the lives and loves of Each and every great creator.

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