Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life: The Authorized Biography

by Fernando Morais

Overview

Paulo Coelho: A Warrior’s Life is the definitive, authorized biography of one of the world’s most popular and widely read authors—and the story of how his enormously popular novel The Alchemist came to be. Fernando Morais, the preeminent biographer in Brazil and a groundbreaking journalist, traces Coelho’s roots in Brazil to his time as a musician and pop lyricist to his wild days of rock and roll to the publication of the The Alchemist and beyond, telling the true tale of one of the most adored authors of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061959707
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	11/17/2009
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Fernando Morais is one of the most important and preeminent journalists in South America and is widely credited with making the biography a popular genre in Brazil. He is also a well-known politician and activist whose articles have stirred much debate in both his native country and South America in general. He lives in São Paulo.

Table of Contents

1 Paulo today: Budapest-Prague-Hamburg-Cairo 1

2 Childhood 64

3 Schooldays 78

4 First play, first love 113

5 First encounter with Dr Benjamim 147

6 Batatinha's debut 173

7 Ballad of the Clinic Gaol 201

8 Shock treatment 222

9 The great escape 245

10 Vera 271

11 The marijuana years 291

12 Discovering America 317

13 Gisa 335

14 The Devil and Paulo 361

15 Paulo and Raul 383

16 A devil of a different sort 410

17 Paulo renounces the Devil 433

18 Cissa 456

19 London 483

20 Christina 514

21 First meeting with Jean 531

22 Paulo and Christina - publishers 550

23 The road to Santiago 581

24 The Alchemist 597

25 The critics' response 618

26 Success abroad 643

27 World fame 667

28 Becoming an 'immortal' 695

29 The Zahir 725

30 One hundred million copies sold 739

Facts about Paulo Coelho 757

Acknowledgements 765

Editorial Reviews

After reading this biography, it is easy to understand how and why these youthful experiences and his subsequent spiritual reawakening inform his fiction with the mystical depth that is his literary trademark. Readers will definitely want to see how his unfolding story continues to play out.

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