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Item RB1395
Product Description
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50 famously productive people and what they did for love
If you've ever worked at a job you never dreamed you'd do, you're in good company—historically speaking. Isaac Newton created counterfeit-proof coins, Daniel Defoe made bricks, William Faulkner sold stamps, Hedy Lamarr conquered random radio-frequency signals. They are among the 50 luminaries spanning 22 centuries that Jack Lynch profiles in our Levenger Press book, Don't Quit Your Day Job. The takeaway? Doing what you must can often make you better at doing what you love. And doing what you can is sometimes the path to doing what you dream you can. As one of the famous 50 said, “Medicine is my lawful wife, literature is my mistress.” (Dr. Anton Chekhov.) With very cool illustrations and a treasury of “who knew?”
Take our Day Job quiz
Match the famous with their not-so-famous other job.
1. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson a. stockbroker
2. Vladimir Nabokov b.mycologist
3. Beatrix Potter c. bookkeeper
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne d. mathematician
5. Jules Verne e. lepidopterist
Answers:
1d, 2e, 3b, 4c, 5a. (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was also known as Lewis Carroll.)
Click here to read some excerpts
50 famously productive people and what they did for love
If you've ever worked at a job you never dreamed you'd do, you're in good company—historically speaking. Isaac Newton created counterfeit-proof coins, Daniel Defoe made bricks, William Faulkner sold stamps, Hedy Lamarr conquered random radio-frequency signals. They are among the 50 luminaries spanning 22 centuries that Jack Lynch profiles in our Levenger Press book, Don't Quit Your Day Job. The takeaway? Doing what you must can often make you better at doing what you love. And doing what you can is sometimes the path to doing what you dream you can. As one of the famous 50 said, “Medicine is my lawful wife, literature is my mistress.” (Dr. Anton Chekhov.) With very cool illustrations and a treasury of “who knew?”
Match the famous with their not-so-famous other job.
1. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson a. stockbroker
2. Vladimir Nabokov b.mycologist
3. Beatrix Potter c. bookkeeper
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne d. mathematician
5. Jules Verne e. lepidopterist
Answers:
1d, 2e, 3b, 4c, 5a. (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was also known as Lewis Carroll.)
- The famous 50 include writers, musicians, philosophers, scientists, and the occasional politician and sportsman
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See the full list of the famous 50 when you click the PDF link below
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Bonus: the book is also a collection of bite-size bios that are authoritative yet entertaining
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Jack Lynch, the author of The Lexicographer's Dilemma and the editor of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, is a professor of English at Rutgers University and a marvelous storyteller
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Indexes by both name and professions
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Bibliography with suggested reading for each luminary
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Hardcover with ribbon marker
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Archival-quality paper
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Cleverly illustrated in a stylized black-and-white
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320 pages, 5 1/2 x 8
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Not in the bookstores—only at Levenger
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To view table of contents, please click here (PDF)