Reports of My Death: Beyond-the-Grave Confessions of North American Writers

By Gerry Christmas

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483495728
• ISBN13: 9781483495729
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Length: 708 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"