Reports of My Death: Beyond-the-Grave Confessions of North American Writers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781483495743)

In Reports of My Death: Beyond-the-Grave Confessions of North American Writers, author Gerry Christmas taps into a literary limbo where he relives the lives of writers in an endless cycle of introspection. Sixty-five "autobiographies" tell you ... - How Mark Twain Americanized the English language and put a human face on the slave trade. - How Edgar Allan Poe came up with the basic theory of relativity fifty years before Albert Einstein. - How Walt Whitman used his poetic genius to make people more loving and less homophobic. - How Emily Dickinson did not live a life devoid of adventure and romance. - How Henry David Thoreau inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. - How Herman Melville anticipated the thoughts and ideas of Sigmund Freud. - How Kate Chopin portrayed adultery with a sympathetic eye and was ostracized for doing so.

Author: Gerry Christmas
ISBN-10: 1483495744
ISBN-13: 9781483495743
Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2019
Pages: 708
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69d