About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews

Delany, Samuel R.

ISBN 10: 0819567167 / ISBN 13: 9780819567161

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 2006

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Nicely inscribed and dated (2006) by Delany on title page. Tiny bit of pencil.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1746732532091

Bibliographic Details

• Title: About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819567167
• ISBN 13: 9780819567161
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Essential reading for the creative writer.

Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere.

About the Author

SAMUEL R. DELANY has taught writers workshops for over 35 years, and has won the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. He has also been recognized with both Hugo and Nebula awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Darkroom Black Students Collective at Harvard University. Delany is Professor of English and creative writing at Temple University, and lives in New York City.