Studying with Miss Bishop
Subtitle: Memoirs from a Young Writer's Life
Publisher: Dry Books, Incorporated, Paul
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781589881518
Description: "In Studying with Miss Bishop, Dana Gioia discusses six people who helped him become a writer and better understand what it meant to dedicate one's life to writing. Four were famous authors--Elizabeth Bishop, John Cheever, James Dickey, and Robert Fitzgerald. Two were unknown--Gioia's Merchant Marine uncle and Ronald Perry, a forgotten poet. Each of the six essays provides a vivid portrait; taken together they tell the story of Gioia's own journey from working-class LA to international literary success."--Page 4 of cover.