The book that changed my life
Subtitle: 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them
By: edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen.
Contributors: Coady, Roxanne J.; Johannessen, Joy.
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781592402106
Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading; Authorship
Description: Sixty-five concise and lively essays by some of today's most successful writers identify the books that proved pivotal to the shaping of their careers, in a volume that includes Harold Bloom on "Little, Big," Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged," and Sebastian Junger on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady; title: Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrison's The bluest eye; title: Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and descants; title: James Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected poems; title: Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The power of myth; title: Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The snake has all the lines; title: Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare; title: Graeme Base on J. R. R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings; title: Jeff Benedict on The little engine that could; title: Elizabeth Berg on J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye; title: Amy Bloom on The most of P. G. Wodehouse; title: Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, big; title: Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima; title: Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive people and more; title: Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The making of the president, 1960; title: Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The denial of death; title: Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo; title: Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein's Ida; title: Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The seven storey mountain; title: Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A stranger is watching; title: Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The yearling  and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; title: Claire Cook on Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew mysteries; title: Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars; title: Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin; title: Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield; title: Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and More; title: Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter; title: Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own; title: Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The way we live now; title: Carlos Eire on Thomas à Kempis's The imitation of Christ; title: Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The adventures of Sherlock Holmes; title: Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The guns of August; title: Linda Greenlaw on  Sebastian Junger's The perfect storm; title: David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The reason why; title: Alice Hoffman on J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye; title: Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury my heart at wounded knee; title: Paul Kennedy on Geoffrey Barraclough's An introduction to contemporary history; title: Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingways Collected stories; title: Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The denial of death; title: Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird; title: Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The only dance there is and more; title: Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The interpretation of dreams; title: Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible; title: Margot Livesey on Charolotte Brontës Jane Eyre; title: Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls; title: Frank McCourt on Shakespeare's Henry VIII; title: Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby; title: Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A tree grows in Brooklyn; title: Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th precinct series; title: Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs's Compromising positions; title: Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the cave man; title: Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise; title: Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwell's So long, see you tomorrow; title: Jacques Pépin on Albert Camus' The myth of Sisyphus; title: Anne Perry on G. K. Chesterton's The man who was Thursday; title: Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A child's garden of verses and More; title: Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A clockwork orange; title: Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of my life and Thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series; title: Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act one; title: SARK on Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings; title: Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's ashes; title: Bernie S. Siegel on William Saroyan's The human comedy; title: Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! voltaire!; title: Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The red and the black; title: Jane Stern on John Barth's The end of the road; title: Michael Stern on the Sears catalogue; title: Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a young poet; title: Paco Underhill on C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series; title: Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird; title: Kate Walbert on E. B. White's Charlotte's web; title: Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse; title: Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby; title: The books that changed their lives : a reading list of the books selected by the contributors; title: Roxanne's very opinionated reading list; title: Joy's very opinionated reading list; title: Acknowledgments.