Sara Mansfield Taber


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Advice for Writers

Advice for Writers



BOOKS ON THE WRITER'S CRAFT FOR WRITERS OF LITERARY NONFICTION

Carolyn Forché & Philip Gerard, WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION: Instruction and Insights from the teachers of the Associated Writing Programs

Brenda Miller & Suzanne Paola, TELL IT SLANT: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction


General Books on Creative Writing

Willian Zinsser, ON WRITING WELL

Robert Pack & Jay Parini (Eds.), WRITERS ON WRITING

Brenda Ueland, IF YOU WANT TO WRITE: A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit

Stephen King, ON WRITING


Books on Memoir Writing

Patricia Hampl, I COULD TELL YOU STORIES: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

Tristine Rainer, YOUR LIFE AS STORY

Judith Barrington, WRITING THE MEMOIR: From Truth to Art

Willian Zinsser, INVENTING THE TRUTH: The Art and Craft of Memoir

Vivian Gornick, THE SITUATION AND THE STORY: The Art of Personal Narrative


Books on Essay Writing

Phillip Lopate, THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY

Joyce Carol Oates, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY


Books n Literary Journalism

Jon Franklin, WRITING FOR STORY: Crafting Scenes of Dramatic Nonfiction

Kevin Kerrane & Ben Yagoda, THE ART OF FACT: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

Norman Sims & Mark Kramer (Eds.), LITERARY JOURNALISM

Norman Sims, THE LITERARY JOURNALISTS


Books on Fiction Writing

Julie Checkoway, CREATING FICTION: Instruction and Insights from teachers of the Associated Writing Programs

Wallace Stegner, ON TEACHING AND WRITING FICTION

Raymond Obstfeld, NOVELIST’S ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CRAFTING SCENES

Jesse Lee Kercheval, BUILDING FICTION: How to Develop Plot and Structure

Ansen Dibell, PLOT

James Moffet & Kenneth R. McElheny, POINTS OF VIEW

John Gardner, THE ART OF FICTION

Thaisa Frank & Dorothy Wall, FINDING YOUR WRITER’S VOICE

Ursula LeGuin, STEERING THE CRAFT: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew


Selected Works

Essay
"Longing for America: Notes from a Traveling Childhood"
"An eloquent essay." -New York Times
Literary Journalism
BREAD OF THREE RIVERS: THE STORY OF A FRENCH LOAF
"...One of the most compelling, knowledgeable, and graceful books about the French soul that has ever been written by an American." -Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
DUSK ON THE CAMPO: A JOURNEY IN PATAGONIA
"The stories remain...etched in the reader's mind, etched as if by the harsh wind of Patagonia itself. Extraordinarily fine writing." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Memoir
"Rainlight"
"A poignant chronicle of the diaspora of the heart--and the heart's quest and longing for that universal place called home." Wall Street Journal



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