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An Extremely Humorous and Surprisingly Accurate Summation of the Bad Boys (and Women) of American LiteratureRock celebrities, artists, and celebrities have not usually had a monopoly on misbehaving. There clearly was a time when writers struggled with each fists and words, a time when poets were those living fast and dying young. This amusing, informative, and extremely enjoyable story users the literary greats who authored era-defining classics such as The Great Gatsby and On the Street while living and caring like hedonistic rock symbols, who were as prone to continue legendary benders because they were hitting the best-seller lists. Literary Rogues turns back the time to think about these historic (and, in some instances, living) stories, including Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Zelda and Y. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Hunter S.