Conversations with John Gardner (Literary Conversations Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878054235 ISBN 13: 9780878054237

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1990

Synopsis

This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists.

These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews.

After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as “a major contemporary writer.” After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews.

These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, “brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.”

About this title

About the Author:

Allan Chavkin is coeditor (with Nancy Feyl Chavkin) of Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, published by University Press of Mississippi.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0878054235
• ISBN 13: 9780878054237
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Allan Chavkin