Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-loved Books - Softcover

Bond, Jenny; Sheedy, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014311364X ISBN 13: 9780143113645

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy run the freelance journalism company The Hard Word. Their work has been published in The Sun-Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Telegraph, Virgin Blue Voyeur, Woman?s Day, TV Week, FHM, and Cleo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 014311364X
• ISBN 13: 9780143113645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318