Criminal talent. For whom writers prison cried

Does the writer seek to sow reasonable, good, eternal, to combine incompatible - the genius and evil, Vice and virtue, good and evil? It turns out that can. If the jailing for four years of the famous writer, the author of more than thirty books of Eduard Limonov became a well-known fact, that very few people know that perfectly depicted the poet Pankratios Sumarokov once faked a hundred-ruble bill, for which he lost his status and was sent into exile for fifteen years. Or, for example, to five years imprisonment for theft was sentenced wonderful storyteller O. Henry, who wrote his best stories in a Federal prison... a Lot of similar stories about writers, the reader will find in the pages of this book. Here are biographies of writers, in different ages and years anyway conflictually with the law.