One Writer's Beginnings
10 best books like One Writer's Beginnings (Eudora Welty): Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, On Becoming a Novelist, Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams, Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, Writing a Woman's Life, The Writer on Her Work
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374508046 |
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.
At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners,...
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
| Author | Harry Crews |
| ISBN | 0820317594 |
A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales, and circumstances that shaped him--and destined him to be a storyteller. Crews was born in the middle of the Great Depression, in a one-room sharecropper's cabin at the end...
| Author | John Gardner |
| ISBN | 0393320030 |
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against,...
| Author | Elizabeth George |
| ISBN | 0060560444 |
7/4/17 ... I posted my comments to my author blog ... https://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/ ... and marked the book to re-read again ... there is always something important to remember, or a new perspective to learn
6/23/17 ... reading again ... bringing back to mind the wonderful advice Elizabeth...
| Author | Janet Burroway |
| ISBN | 0321277368 |
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing...
Writing a book requires a focus, a sense of knowing and trusting in yourself and your work. And it requires an unflinching commitment to staying the course. Chapter After Chapter shows you how to build on your good writing habits, accrue and recognize tiny successes, and turn your dedication to the craft...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0553374966 |
In this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg, one of the most sought-after writing teachers of our time, takes us to the next step in the writing process.
You’ve filled your notebooks, done your writing practice, discovered...
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
| Author | Elaine Showalter |
| ISBN | 1400041236 |
A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination—brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions—we are introduced...
| Author | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
"Astute and provocative....Blends the sophistication of recent feminist theory with highly textured details fro the lives of independent and ambitious women."
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Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy...
| Author | Janet Sternburg |
| ISBN | 0393320553 |
A collection of essays and talks (even an extended poem from Ursula Le Guin) by women on writing. It covers what, why and how they write and what the obstacles are. The contributions are variable in quality, but they are all worth reading. Contributors include Margaret Attwood, Joan Didion, Erica Jong,...
| Author | William Zinsser |
| ISBN | 0395901502 |
An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir
Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing...
| Author | Tom Grimes |
| ISBN | 0982504896 |
"You don't choose the writer's life, the writer's life chooses you."
When Grimes first meets Frank Conroy (then director of the legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop), he tells him he recently applied to the program. Conroy's response? "Yeah, you and eight hundred others." But Grimes was not only...
| Author | Suzanne Marrs |
| ISBN | 0151009147 |
I heard mediocre things about this when it came out so I didn't bother, but I found it on a sale table so picked it up and found out for myself that it is mediocre.
It's useful for facts facts facts, and so it will become yet another one of those bios I flip through the index to find out what I want to find...
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life
| Author | Charles Baxter |
| ISBN | 0472067745 |
In Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, seventeen award-winning writers--all expert teachers--share the secrets of creating compelling, imaginative stories and novels. A combination handbook, writer's companion, and collection of spirited personal essays,...
| Author | Patricia Hampl |
| ISBN | 0393320316 |
In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, "weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or bedeviled her. Subjects engaging Hampl's attention...
| Author | Brad Gooch |
| ISBN | 0316000663 |
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote...
| Author | Robert Olen Butler |
| ISBN | 0802142575 |
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University -- his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace...
The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060565543 |
A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method
Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose,...
Sarton’s own title for her last journal was Kairos: “a unique time in a person’s life; an opportunity for change.” It chronicles roughly 13 months, from July 1993 to August 1994; Sarton died in July 1995 of a recurrence of breast cancer. After 15 years in the small town of Nelson, New Hampshire,...
