Writers and their teachers / edited by Dale Salwak.

Format Book
PublicationLondon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Descriptionxviii, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Mentoring of authors.
Authorship--Study and teaching.
Authors--Education.

Other author/creatorSalwak, Dale, editor.
Other author/creatorCoetzee, J. M., 1940- author.
Other author/creatorGerzina, Gretchen, author.
Other author/creatorAird, Catherine, author.
Other author/creatorScammell, Michael, author.
Other author/creatorMotion, Andrew, 1952- author.
Other author/creatorNgũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025 author.
Other author/creatorColt, George Howe, author.
Other author/creatorMeyers, Jeffrey, author.
Other author/creatorParini, Jay, author.
Other author/creatorLogan, William, 1950 November 16- author.
Other author/creatorGreenblatt, Stephen, 1943- author.
Other author/creatorDrabble, Margaret, 1939- author.
Other author/creatorRollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund) author.
Other author/creatorMariani, Paul L., author.
Other author/creatorAminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey), author.
Other author/creatorThwaite, Ann, author.
Other author/creatorJohnson, Daniel, 1957- author.
Other author/creatorBoyers, Robert, author.
Other author/creatorGioia, Dana author.
Other author/creatorTheroux, Paul author.
Other author/creatorBloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
Contents Part One School : Teachers we remember: Gerrit Gouws / J.M. Coetzee -- Mabel Morrill / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina -- Learning curve / Catherine Aird -- A way with words / Michael Scammell -- Peter Way / Andrew Motion -- My grandfather and my other teachers / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o -- Il Miglior Fabbro / George Howe Colt -- Part Two College : The perilous balance of Marvin Eisenberg / Jeffrey Meyers -- W. Edward Brown : Many years of mentoring / Jay Parini -- David Milch and the strategies of indirection in fiction / William Logan -- Part Three Graduate school and after : My Doktorvater: Alvin Kernan / Stephen Greenblatt -- A far cry from Oxbridge / Margaret Drabble -- The right words / Carl Rollyson -- Remembering Allen Mandelbaum / Paul Mariani -- Sketch of a professor: Roger Gilliatt / Michael J. Aminoff -- How lucky I was... / Ann Thwaite -- J.P. Stern: The professor from Prague / Daniel Johnson -- George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent / Robert Boyers -- Class struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford / Dana Gioia -- V.S. Naipaul, the drill sergeant / Paul Theroux.
General noteIncludes index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781350272286
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