Ann PatchettAnn Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to...

John Fairfax and John MoatIn 1969 the poet John Fairfax and poet and novelist John Moat dreamt up the Arvon Foundation, a venture born out of their frustration that nowhere...

Margaret AtwoodWhat is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career,...

Author: Paula Balzer There's more to writing a memoir than just writing your life story.A memoir isn't one long diary entry. Rather, it's a well-crafted story about a crucial, often...

Author: Linda Joy Myers Linda Joy Myers, PhD A groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problemsThe Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to...

Janet EvanovichThis book details the elements of writing and publishing a novel, and addresses all categories of fiction--from mystery/thriller/action titles to romance; from stand-alone narratives to series. It offers practical...

Carole Boyce Davies Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set...

Jon Ronson   An award-winning journalist offers an intriguing and timely study of extremists around the world and the conspiracy theory that links them, offering meticulously rendered profiles of a...

Virginia Woolf An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary" was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period...

Author: Usborne Aspiring young writers will love this fun activity book full of hints, tips and handy tasks for writing breath-taking stories. The first half of the book is full...

William Strunk Jr, E.B. White You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual,...

Author: Steven Pinker "Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st centuryWhat...