Life Writing (Paperback)

Life Writing offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes use of new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specializing in life writing. Using their experience and expertise as teachers as well as authors, Derek Neale and Sara Haslam guide aspiring writers through such key writing skills as: writing what you know investigating biography and autobiography using prefaces finding a form using memory developing characters using novelistic, poetic and dramatic techniques. The volume is further updated to include never-before published interviews and conversations with successful life writers such as Jenny Diski, Robert Fraser, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison. Concise and practical, Life Writing offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of authorship and is a must-read for aspiring writers.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2009
Authors:	Sara Haslam • Derek Neale
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-46153-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-415-46153-7
Barcode:	9780415461535

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