In Reports of My Death: Beyond-the-Grave Confessions of North American Writers, author Gerry Christmas taps into a literary limbo where he relives the lives of writers in an endless cycle of introspection. Sixty-five ÒautobiographiesÓ tell you É
¥ How Mark Twain Americanized the English language and put a human face on the slave trade.
¥ How Edgar Allan Poe came up with the basic theory of relativity fifty years before Albert Einstein.
¥ How Walt Whitman used his poetic genius to make people more loving and less homophobic.
¥ How Emily Dickinson did not live a life devoid of adventure and romance.
¥ How Henry David Thoreau inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
¥ How Herman Melville anticipated the thoughts and ideas of Sigmund Freud.
¥ How Kate Chopin portrayed adultery with a sympathetic eye and was ostracized for doing so.