The Open Door: When Writers First Learned to Read - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879239212 ISBN 13: 9780879239213

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1994

Synopsis

"Slowly my eyes rode across the lines of print, and the New World smiled. . . The door opened, and without hesitation I walked through."

- M. F. K. Fisher
Twenty-nine of history and literature's most interesting & celebrated writers recall their discovery of books and reading: Benjamin Franklin, William Cobbet, Charles Dickens, Fredrick Douglas, Abraham Cahan, Rudyard Kipling, W.B. Yeats, H.G. Wells, Gertrude Stein, Winston Churchill, Sherwood Anderson, Upton Sinclair, H.L. Mencken, A.A. Milne, Will Durant, E.E. Cummings, Jean Rhys, C.S. Lewis, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Wright, M.F.K. Fisher, Eudora Welty, Dylan Thomas, Harper Lee, Paule Marshall, Richard Rodriguez, Stephen King, Annie Dillard.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Gilbar lives in Santa Barbara and does not get to spend as much time in the wilderness as he would like. His previous anthologies include "Tales of Santa Barbara" (1994) and "Red Tiles, Blue Skies" (1996).

Review:

The Open Door is a reader's delight, a book to be savored, to browse through time and again. It has an endearingly personal tone, as if the reader had been invited to sit down for a short visit with each of the writers. --Heather Vogel Frederick, Christian Science Monitor

Recommended highly for life-long bookworms and readers. --ABA Booklist

Amusing, charming, powerful at times, the book is a small treasure. --The Cleveland Plain Dealer

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0879239212
• ISBN 13: 9780879239213
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 125
• Editor: Steven Gilbar