Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough

“The stories of the wounded storytellers unfold smoothly on the page, as mesmerizing as any they themselves might have told.” — The New York Times The Bard meets House, M.D. in this fascinating untold story of the impact of disease on the lives and works of some the finest writers in the English language. John Ross cheerfully debunks old biographical myths and suggests fresh diagnoses for these writers' real-life medical mysteries. Were Shakespeare's shaky handwriting, his obsession wi