Shakespeare wrote with a feather quill and ink; Emily Dickinson wrote
with a fountain pen; Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote on a Yiddish
typewriter. But what did such writers do when they weren't writing? What
did Jane Austen eat for breakfast? What could make Mark Twain throw his
shirts out the window? Why would Zora Neale Hurston punch a fellow
elevator passenger? Lives of the Writers tells all that and more.