The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations

Before Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara ?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all lovers of language and literature, it reveals in short, pithy chapters, the lives, loves, motivations, and quirky, fascinating details involving fifty of the best-loved books of the Western world.

• When stacked up, the original manuscript of Gone With the Wind stood taller than Margaret Mitchell, its 4' 9 1/2" author

• Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was part of the Allied team that cracked the Nazi’s Enigma code

• Leo Tolstoy’s wife copied War and Peace by hand . . . seven times

From The Great Gatsby to Harper Lee, from Jaws to J. K . Rowling, Who the Hell Is Pansy O’Hara ? offers an entertaining and informative journey through the minds of writers and the life experiences that took these amazing works from notion to novel.