Godfather Was A Girl: . . . And Blanche Dubois Was A Guy

More than 300 fascinating stories of the real people behind iconic fictional characters—from the neighborhood suicide who inspired Tolstoy to write Anna Karenina to the X-Men characters inspired by MLK and Malcolm X

"Why waste time with this insignificant and irrelevant part of the book when you could be discovering the story of who JD from Scrubs was based on?" —from the foreword

Did you know that the inspiration for Rocky Balboa once lost at wrestling to Andre the Giant? That Ali G was ac...