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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Here, in these four crisp essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion...
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career."--Provided by publisher.
Rowe has been writing all of her adult life- even through years of constant rejection from publishing houses. Between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, her breakthrough finally came-- at the age of eighty! Here she shares her journey of attending myriad writers' conferences and honing her ability to see humor in everyday...
Author
Series
Kaleidoscope Ethnic Chinese Writers volume 1
Publisher
[Aurora Publishing LLC]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
"In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family,...
14) Women writers
Author
Series
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of eighteen biographies which profile women writers from different times, places, races, and social status.
15) Half wild: poems
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In O'Reilley's poems, human, animal, and mineral creations interpenetrate and share surreal conversation - even stones exchange stories of "hot times in the magma" and animals are listened to intently. Here sacred inquiry is grounded in a passion for the natural world, resolving questions through lyric, erotic, and sensual response. The poems of Half Wild revel in desire and longing as instruments of theological critique."--Jacket.
17) Lois Lowry
Author
Publisher
Learning Works
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The life of the Newbery Award-winning American author Lois Lowry, covering her life and her development as a writer of fiction for children.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author describes her convent school education in Ireland, the scandal that ensued upon the publication of her first novel, and the wild 1960s parties that introduced her to people from all walks of life.