The Autobiographer's Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir
Redaktion: Traig, Jennifer; Traig, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Practical insights from modern masters of memoir-A.J. Jacobs, Sarah Vowell, Tobias Wolff, Elizabeth Gilbert, Frank McCourt, and many more. In The Autobiographer's Handbook, you're invited to a roundtable discussion with today's most successful memoirists. Let Nick Hornby show you how the banal can be brilliant. Elizabeth Gilbert will teach you to turn pain into prose. Want to beat procrastination? Steve Almond has the answer. Learn about memory triggers (Ishmael Beah: music) and warm-up exercises (Jonathan Ames: internet backgammon). These writers may not always agree (on research: Tobias Wolff, yes, Frank McCourt, no) but whether you're a blossoming writer or a veteran wordsmith, this unprecedennted wealth of knowledge will help anyone who's ever dreamed of putting their story on paper, on writing themselves into existence. Featuring: Steve Almond . Jonathan Ames . Ishmael Beah . Elizabeth Gilbert . Nick Hornby . A. J. Jacobs . Maxine Hong Kingston . Phillip Lopate . Frank Mccourt . David Rakoff . Esmeralda Santiago . Julia Scheeres . Art Spiegelman . Anthony Swofford . Sarah Vowell . Sean Wilsey . Tobias Wolff . and many more "Should prove useful, informative and motivating for writers at just about any level." - Publishers Weekly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429930925
• Artikelnr.: 39938001

Autorenporträt

826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco dedicated to supporting students aged six to eighteen with their writing skills. The first center opened in 2002 and since then, more than 10,000 volunteers have donated their time, with 826 centers springing up in New York, L.A., Ann Arbor, Chicago, and Seattle; 826 Boston will open in the fall of 2007. All proceeds from The Autobiographer's Handbook will benefit the 826 centers. Jennifer Traig, a longtime 826 tutor and workshop teacher, is the author of the memoirs-Well Enough Alone and Devil in the Details (2004). She holds a Ph.D. in literature, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, JANE , The Observer (London), and the San Francisco Chronicle.