03-Jul-2004
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
