Synopsis
'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol...
Details
11 June 2020304 pages
9781529059960Imprint: Picador
Reviews
I just can't recommend this book enoughLena Dunham
A trove of entertaining anecdote and thought-provoking comparisonToby Lichtig, Daily Telegraph
A chance to see what great lives look like when the triumphs, dramas, disruptions and divorces have been all but boiled away. It will fascinate anyone who wonders how a day might best be spent, especially those who have wondered of their artistic heroes, as a baffled Colette once did of George Sand: how the devil did they manage?Guardian
Utterly fascinatingDaisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
