Gross J. (ed.) The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

Oxford University Press, 2006. — xiv, 386 p. — (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse). — ISBN 0-19-280468-5, 978-0-19-280468-6.The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes is a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
This is a book that finds room for anecdotes about Milton and Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and Bob Dylan, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wittgenstein. The authors of the anecdotes are equally diverse, from the diarists John Aubrey, John Evelyn and James Boswell to fellow writers such as W. H. Auden, Harriet Martineau, Walter Scott, Evelyn Waugh, and Vanessa Bell.