Fun facts about your favorite writers

Fact: Kurt Vonnegut once managed a SAAB dealership.
Fact: The Bronte sisters lived in a house surrounded on three sides by graveyards.
Fact: Ernest Hemingway once wrestled a critic to the floor after he gave him a bad review.

If you like random literary trivia, a new book is sure to satisfy. In Secret Lives of Great Authors (Quirk, $16.95), Robert Schnakenberg divulges all sorts of fun facts about our favorite writers, from Lewis Carroll to Virginia Woolf to J.R.R. Tolkien. Mario Zucca's illustrations make the title worthy of coffee-table display, and each entry begins with a basic bio to help you brush up on the classics.

I picked up this book the other night and couldn't put it down; it includes a good selection of my favorite authors and many personal details I never learned in English class.
After the jump, read an exclusive excerpt from Secret Lives: It's the entry about J.D. Salinger.
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Thanks to social historian Chris Bourke for bringing it to my attention. Sounds like a book I must have.

And for a review from The Library Journal. Or Google the title and find thousands of entries.