On Becoming a Novelist
by John Gardner
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appears in Best Books on Writing, Writing, and Nonfiction.
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twentyyear career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts...
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appears in Best Books on Writing, Writing, and Nonfiction.
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