Paul Mandelbaum: First Words | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781565122727 | First Words | Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors

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Beschreibung

Most kid write stories. A few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before Stephen King created Carrie, he created Jhonathan, at age nine. And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, there was Manuel Citarro, detective in John Updike's hard-boiled mystery, written at fourteen. Before Jurassic Park, there was young Michael Crichton's story about the mysteriously wounded man lying unattended in the street.
Editor Paul Mandelbaum persuaded our most popular American authors to share their childhood writings and their treasured photographs. What he's gathered is a fascinating, delightful collection of writing and early snapshots that reveal young minds at work, wrestling with early versions of ideas that were to take hold of their writings in later years. Of course, the young Madeline L'Engle would wonder about space and the meaning of eternity. Of course, Margaret Atwood would question conventional female behavior, arguing for the right to smoke cigars.
First Words is an inspiration to budding writers and enthusiastic teachers, and a revelation for readers everywhere.
This revised and condensed edition includes the following writers:
Margaret Atwood
Roy Blount, Jr.
Paul Bowles
Pat Conroy
Michael Crichton
Rita Dove
Clyde Edgerton
Gail Godwin
Allan Gurganus
Charles Johnson
Stephen King
Maxine Hong Kingston
Ursula LeGuin
Madeleine L'Engle
Jill McCorkle
Norman Mailer
Joyce Carol Oates
William Styron
Amy Tan
John Updike
Gore Vidal
Tobias Wolff

Über den Autor

Paul Mandelbaum grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A freelance journalist and writer, he has taught magazine journalism at the University of Iowa and Drake University, was an editor at Baltimore magazine and Managing Editor for Story magazine. He has published fiction in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner, DoubleTake, Black Warrior Review, and Poets and Writers. He lives in Culver City, California.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (ix)

Margaret Atwood (3)

Roy Blunt, Jr. (17)

Paul Bowles (27)

Pat Conroy (43)

Michael Crichton (47)

Rita Dove (67)

Clyde Edgerton (75)

Gail Godwin (83)

Allan Gurganus (99)

Charles Johnson (109)

Stephen King (117)

Maxine Hong Kingston (123)

Ursula K. Le Guin (133)

Madeleine L'Engle (137)

Jill McCorkle (145)

Norman Mailer (153)

Joyce Carol Oates (159)

William Styron (175)

Amy Tan (183)

John Updike (187)

Gore Vidal (215)

Tobias Wolf (227)

Appendix (231)

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2000
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781565122727
ISBN-10:	1565122720
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mandelbaum, Paul
Redaktion:	Mandelbaum, Paul
Hersteller:	Algonquin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	210 x 140 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul Mandelbaum
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.04.2000
Gewicht:	0,377 kg