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245 04 $aThe writing life :$bwriters on how they think and work : a collection from the Washington post book world /$cedited and with an introduction by Marie Arana.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPublic Affairs,$cc2003.
300 $axviii, 404 p. ;$c21 cm.
505 00 $tOn becoming a writer.$tThe seduction of the text /$rFrancine Du Plessix Gray --$tThe importance of childhood /$rJoyce Carol Oates --$tLooking for the spark /$rJoanna Trollope --$tHow to identify and nurture young writers /$rJames Michener --$tTouched by an angel /$rMary Higgins Clark --$tThe leap from necessity to invention /$rJohn Keegan --$tA real-life education /$rSusan Minot --$tEmerging from under your rejection slips /$rMuriel Spark --$tBeing a product of your dwelling place /$rNadine Gordimer --$tDoing it for love /$rErica Jong.
505 00 $tRaw material.$tToo happy for words /$rAlice McDermott --$tUsing my father's story /$rCraig Nova --$tBetween origins and art /$rGeorge P. Pelecanos --$tThe writer as outlaw /$rJayne Anne Phillips --$tFrom memory to the imagination /$rNtozake Shange --$tCan Whites write about Blacks? /$rScott Turow --$tIn praise of silence /$rJohn Edgar Wideman --$tBicultural, adrift, and wandering /$rAnita Desai --$tOn finding a Latino Voice /$rJulia Alvarez --$tLiving in Irish, writing in English /$rJohn Banville.
505 00 $tHunkering down.$tHolidays at the Keyboard Inn /$rWendy Wasserstein --$tThe passionate researcher /$rPatricia Cornwell --$tFrom packrat to historian /$rStanley Karnow --$tClimbing into another head /$rDavid McCullough --$tHunter of metaphors /$rRay Bradbury --$tFollowing the script /$rEdmund Morris --$tHeadbirths : bookish midwifery /$rMichael Korda --$tGuided by voices : the work of a ghostwriter /$rDavid Chanoff.
505 00 $tOld bottle, new wine. From will-of-the-wisp to full-blown novel /$rE.L. Doctorow --$tReincarnation, translation and adventure /$rUmberto Eco --$tMaster of my universe /$rStanley Elkin --$tSounds and sensibilities /$rNed Rorem --$tWriter with scalpel /$rRichard Selzer --$tA chronicle of the plague years /$rReynolds Price --$tOn being a novice playwright /$rCynthia Ozick --$tActing out, letting go /$rGloria Naylor --$tPen names galore /$rDonald E. Westlake --$tSummer lite /$rBarbara Mertz.
505 00 $tFacing the facts.$tHistory is their beat : the new journalist historians /$rDavid Halberstam --$tA novel approach to reality : basing a story in facts /$rDominick Dunne --$tMaking the truth believable /$rTracy Kidder --$tDescribing the world as it is, not as it would be /$rCarl Sagan --$tThe political memoir : taking note of history /$rGeorge P. Shultz --$tPresident in search of a publisher /$rJimmy Carter --$tBiographer, get a life /$rStacy Schiff --$tFrom the clinic /$rKay Redfield Jamison --$tNotes from the road /$rJonathan Raban --$tNatural selections /$rE.O. Wilson --$tSpeaking up for the environment /$rBill McKibben.
505 00 $tLooking back.$tThe trouble with finishing /$rFrances FitzGerald --$tThe hardest critics /$rCarol Shields --$tLiterary executions /$rJulian Barnes --$tTaking it all back /$rJane Smiley --$tWriter, be afraid /$rMichael Chabon --$tIn search of the next idea /$rWard Just.
520 $aPresents reprints of articles by over fifty professional authors in which they discuss aspects of their lives as writers, drawn from throughout ten years of the "Writing Life" column of the "Washington Post."
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthorship.
700 1 $aArana, Marie.
730 0 $aWashington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
776 08 $iOnline version:$tWriting life.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Public Affairs, ©2003$w(OCoLC)648812569
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