The title is a bit of a misnomer, all these writers are dead, and yet I was unable to put down this little gem that I picked up at a library book sale for fifty cents.

The writers covered in this volume lived from the early 14th century to the early 20th century and range from Boccaccio to Hardy. One could argue that in today’s world the little chapters on each of these writers could be gleaned from Wikipedia and other Internet sources. But the spirit that the writers Henry and Dana L More...