Summary

Lives of the Writers

Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
Short biographies about the lives of: Murasaki Shikibu Miguel de Cervantes William Shakespeare Jane Austen Hans Christian Andersen Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens Charlotte and Emily Brontë Emily Dickinson Louisa May Alcott Mark Twain Frances Hodgson Burnett Robert Louis Stevenson Jack London Carl Sandburg E.B. White Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes Isaac Bashevis Singer