Writing for Your Life

by Steinberg, Sybil

• ISBN13: 9780916366780
• ISBN10: 0916366782
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-17
• Publisher: Pushcart Press

Summary

When 92 outstanding contemporary writers talk about the art of writing and the gritty job of publishing, only two descriptions are appropriate: encyclopedic and definitive. A summary of these interviews indicates that there is no simple path to prominence and no easy rule for creation. Every author has an individual and often idiosyncratic history to reveal. And such histories! Here are the voices of Jean Auel, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Tom Clancy, Pat Conroy, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Umberto Eco, Toni Morrison, Tim O'Brien, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Wallace Stegner, Fay Weldon, and scores more. The result is a one-of-a-kind inside look at the writing and publishing process. Every writer and reader will be fascinated by these revelations, as selected from the Publishers Weekly Interview columns.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Editor's Note	p. 9
Diane Ackerman	p. 15
Isabel Allende	p. 21
Jean Auel	p. 27
Paul Auster	p. 33
Russell Banks	p. 39
Richard Bausch	p. 45
Ann Beattie	p. 51
William Boyd	p. 56
T. Coraghessan Boyle	p. 61
Anita Brookner	p. 66
Frederick Busch	p. 72
Joseph Campbell	p. 78
Raymond Carver	p. 84
Sandra Cisneros	p. 89
Tom Clancy	p. 94
Robert Coles	p. 99
Pat Conroy	p. 105
K.C. Constantine	p. 111
Robert Coover	p. 116
Harry Crews	p. 122
Pete Dexter	p. 127
Don DeLillo	p. 133
James Dickey	p. 139
Annie Dillard	p. 144
Margaret Drabble	p. 150
Umberto Eco	p. 156
Clyde Edgerton	p. 162
Stanley Elkin	p. 168
Louise Erdrich	p. 174
Howard Fast	p. 180
Leslie Fiedler	p. 185
Ken Follett	p. 191
Richard Ford	p. 196
Paula Fox	p. 202
Eduardo Galeano	p. 208
George Garrett	p. 213
Nadine Gordimer	p. 218
Doris Grumbach	p. 224
Allan Gurganus	p. 230
Jim Harrison	p. 236
Shirley Hazzard	p. 242
Mark Helprin	p. 248
John Hersey	p. 252
Oscar Hijuelos	p. 258
Tony Hillerman	p. 264
Laura Z. Hobson	p. 270
William Humphrey	p. 275
Josephine Humphreys	p. 281
Joyce Johnson	p. 286
Ward Just	p. 292
Garrison Keillor	p. 297
Tracy Kidder	p. 393
Barbara Kingsolver	p. 309
David Leavitt	p. 315
Mario Vargas Llosa	p. 321
Paule Marshall	p. 326
Bobbie Ann Mason	p. 331
Peter Matthiessen	p. 337
Colleen McCullough	p. 342
Tom McGuane	p. 348
Sue Miller	p. 354
Toni Morrison	p. 359
Bharati Mukherjee	p. 364
Alice Munro	p. 370
Tim O'Brien	p. 375
Tillie Olsen	p. 381
Cynthia Ozick	p. 387
Grace Paley	p. 393
Jay Parini	p. 399
Robert B. Parker	p. 405
Richard Powers	p. 411
Anne Rice	p. 417
Henry Roth	p. 423
Philip Roth	p. 429
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer	p. 435
Lynne Sharon Schwartz	p. 441
Carolyn See	p. 447
Mary Lee Settle	p. 453
Kate Simon	p. 459
Isaac Bashevis Singer	p. 464
Jane Smiley	p. 469
Elizabeth Spencer	p. 474
Wallace Stegner	p. 480
Robert Stone	p. 485
Peter Taylor	p. 491
William Trevor	p. 497
Barbara Tuchman	p. 502
Scott Turow	p. 507
Gore Vidal	p. 512
Kurt Vonnegut	p. 518
Fay Weldon	p. 524
John Edgar Wideman	p. 530
Contributors	p. 537
Bibliography	p. 541
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