Writers Gone Wild

Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature’s Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes (Perigee Books, Penguin Group, 2010) by Bill Peschel is a lively compendium of outrageous anecdotes from the lives of famous authors. The book uncovers scandals, eccentricities, and wild escapades—from Sylvia Plath biting Ted Hughes hard enough to draw blood, to Ernest Hemingway brawling with critics and fellow writers, to Percy Bysshe Shelley fleeing from women’s breasts