The making of a writer
Subtitle: Journals, 1963-1969
By: Gail Godwin ; edited by Rob Neufeld
Contributors: Neufeld, Rob
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781400064335
Subjects: Authorship; Fiction; Diaries; Biography; American Novelists
Description: Presents the second volume of journal writings by the three-time National Book Award finalist, discussing how, after establishing her purpose as an author, she published her first stories and novels, with observations about the literary world of the period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dramatic self : July 23, to September 30, 1963; title: Brothers and lovers : November 17, 1963, to March 23, 1964; title: Portrait of a woman : January 31,1965, to March 18, 1965; title: Accommodating Lucifer : March 20, 1965, to February 12, 1966; title: The outsider : March 21, to May 22, 1966; title: Getting published : March 5, 1968, to November 3, 1968; title: The void and the validation : November 3, 1968, to December 11, 1968; title: The writer's contract : December 13, 1968, to March 11, 1969; title: Completion : March 12, 1969, to July 6, 1969.