Although there are many more “famous authors” in history (and today) than those in the series, these DVDs may be just the thing for a quick tour through the lives of your personal literary greats. Or perhaps you have teenagers who are suffering through a term paper and can’t stand the thought of reading any research info that doesn’t begin with the letters W-I-K-I. Check them out on Amazon.com.

Director Malcolm Hossick profiles such (dead, white, Western) literary greats as:

• John Steinbeck
• Virginia Woolf
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Jane Austen

Come back and let us know how they are.