I’ve just written a piece for Lateral Action, one of my other blogs, about T.S. Eliot’s route to fame, inspired by the excellent Ackroyd biography.
If you like that, you might like this piece about the other great poet-businessman of the English language:
I was recommended “Shakespeare Wrote for Money” by Nick Hornby. Sounded interesting
Looks like a collection of his essays – dare one say it, one should be able to read the Shakespeare one in the bookshop…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Wrote-Money-Nick-Hornby/dp/1934781290