The Writer on her Work
By: edited and with an introduction by Janet Sternberg.
Contributors: Sternberg, Janet.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780393000719
Subjects: Women authors, American.
Description: Seventeen novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write, and what it means to be a woman and a writer. This book includes the essay "A Four Hundred Year Old Woman" by Bharati Mukherjee.
Table of contents: title: The writer herself: an introduction / Janet Sternburg; title: Still just writing / Anne Tyler; title: Why I write / Joan Didion; title: The parable of the cave or: In praise of watercolors / Mary Gordon; title: De memoria / Nancy Milford; title: My grandmother who painted / Honor Moore; title: Creating oneself from scratch / Michele Murray; title: On being female, black, and free / Margaret Walker; title: Thoughts on writing: a diary / Susan Griffin; title: One child of one's own: a meaningful digression within the work(s) / Alice Walker; title: The middle period / Ingrid Bengis; title: What it is I think I'm doing anyhow / Toni Cade Bambara; title: Blood and guts: the tricky problem of being a woman writer in the late twentieth century / Erica Jong; title: The coming book / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: Opening nights: the opening days / Janet Burroway; title: The education of a poet / Muriel Rukeyser; title: Becoming a writer / Gail Godwin.