THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PAGES
The lives, friendships and unexpected turns behind the stories we love.
Mary Shelley
A group of friends tried writing ghost stories near Lake Geneva. An eighteen-year-old's idea became a book that still unsettles us.
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Before Poirot became a familiar name, there was a sister's challenge, a hospital dispensary and a manuscript that kept coming back.
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Before readers met Jo March, Alcott served in a Civil War hospital. Letters from that work became Hospital Sketches, her first bestseller.
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Toby got to the only draft of Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck had two months of work to redo—and somehow found room for a joke.
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Before To Kill a Mockingbird, two friends offered Harper Lee something extraordinary: time. Years later, their kindness came back to them.
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A young writer, two familiar childhood heroes and a life shared with Eva Gabrielsson—before the world discovered Millennium.
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