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Title The writer on her work / edited and with an updated introduction by Janet Sternburg.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.99287 W939 2000    ---  Available
Edition [Rev. ed.].
Description xxix, 268 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents Preface / Julia Alvarez -- The writer herself : an introduction ; A second introduction to the year 2000 / Janet Sternburg -- Still just writing / Anne Tyler -- Why I write / Joan Didion -- Parable of the case or : In praise of watercolors -- De memoria / Nancy Milford -- My grandmother who painted / Honor Moore -- Creating oneself from scratch / Michele Murray -- On being female, black, and free / Margaret Walker -- Thoughts on writing : a diary / Susan Griffin -- One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s) / Alice Walker -- Middle period / Ingrid Bengis -- What it is I think I'm doing / Toni Cade Bambara -- Blood and guts : the tricky problem of being a woman writer in the late twentieth century / Erica Jong -- Coming book / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Opening nights : the opening days / Janet Burroway -- Education of a poet / Muriel Rukeyser -- Becoming a writer / Gail Godwin.
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Added Author Sternburg, Janet.
ISBN 0393320553
9780393320558
Standard No. YDXCP 1661177

 
    
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