Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849821089 ISBN 13: 9781849821087

Publisher: MP Publishing Ltd, 2010

Favorite authors discuss the day jobs they left behind. These authors tell good tales. Contributory autobiographical essays by: John Grisham, Pat Conroy, Howard Bahr, Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Connie May Fowler, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, William Gay, Winston Groom, Silas House, Suzanne Hudson, Joshilyn Jackson, Barb Johnson, Cassandra King, Janis Owens, Michelle Richmond, Clay Risen, George Singleton, Matthew Teague, Daniel Wallace, Brad Watson, Steve Yarbrough and Sonny Brewer. Cover picture by Barry Moser.If you wonder what work preceded their efforts to produce a great pile of books, if you would like to know how they made the transition to, as William Gay said, “clocking in at the culture factory,” then this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Sonny Brewer, Editor Fairhope, Alabama.These authors tell good tales. If you wonder what work preceded their efforts to produce a great pile of books, if you would like to know how they made the transition to, as William Gay said, “clocking in at the culture factory,” then this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Sonny Brewer, Editor Fairhope, Alabama.

About the Author:

Sonny Brewer is the author of four novels, including The Poet of Tolstoy Park and The Widow and the Tree. Also the editor of the anthology series Stories from the Blue Moon Café, he lives in Fairhope, AL.