On Writing (Modern Library)

Welty, Eudora/ Bausch, Richard (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 0679642706 / ISBN 13: 9780679642701

Published by Modern Library, 2002

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2002 modern library ed edition. 128 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Writing (Modern Library)
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679642706
• ISBN 13: 9780679642701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.19 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On Writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative craft, and which every fiction writer should know, such as place, voice, memory, and language. But even more important is what Welty calls “the mystery” of fiction writing—how the writer assembles language and ideas to create a work of art.

Originally part of her larger work The Eye of the Story but never before published in a stand-
alone volume, On Writing is a handbook every fiction writer, whether novice or master, should keep within arm’s reach. Like The Elements of Style, On Writing is concise and fundamental, authoritative and timeless—as was Eudora Welty herself.

About the Author

One of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is the author of, among many other books, One Writer's Beginnings, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. She died in 2001.