description: On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and what, in general, he or she cannot.
language: English
title: On Becoming a Novelist
titlecomplete: On Becoming a Novelist
genres: American, Essays, Art, Self Help, Crafts, Reference, Literature, Nonfiction, Writing, Books About Books
ratings_count: 2932
publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc