My Mentor - A Young Writer's Friendship With William Maxwell

Informationen zum Autor Alec Wilkinson is the author of A Violent Act, Moonshine Midnights, and Big Sugar. A recipient of a Lyndhurst Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship, he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Esquire, and other magazines. He lives in New York City. Klappentext A compelling reflection on wisdom, friendship, and the craft of writing, My Mentor is also the touching story of a young man's education at the hands of a master, William Maxwell. At age twenty-four, Alec Wilkinson approached Maxwell in hopes of being taught to write. A quarter century of friendship followed. As a fiction editor of The New Yorker, Maxwell was unquestionably one of the past century's most respected editors; as the author of the masterpieces They Came Like Swallows and So Long, See You Tomorrow, he was one of its greatest American writers. His unparalleled ear for language and eye for detail, his depth of understanding and experience, make his instructions on writing an essential guide to the craft. In honoring this great man of letters, Wilkinson creates a "deft and sympathetic portrait" (New York Times Book Review).

Product details

• Authors: Alec Wilkinson
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2003
• EAN: 9780618382699
• ISBN: 978-0-618-38269-9
• Dimensions: 121 mm x 191 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY: WORLD, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Editors, Journalists, Publishers, ART: History / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Fiction Writing, HISTORY: Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM: Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM: Short Stories, EDUCATION: Arts in Education