num_pages: 288
description: Presenting seven portraits of literary and creative lives, Alexandra Johnson illuminates the secret world of writers and their diaries. This volume tells how the diaries of Marjory Fleming, Sonya Tolstoy, Alice James, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin, and May Sarton negotiated the obstacle course of silence, ambition, envy, and fame. 288 pp. 20,000 print.
language: English
title: The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life
titlecomplete: The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life
genres: Writing, Journaling, Essays, Diary, Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 97
publisher: Doubleday