First published in 1987, Inventing the Truth quickly grew into the best-selling compendium of the Writer's Craft series and continues to be a lasting hit. In this revised and expanded edition with a new introduction by its editor, William Zinsser, the voices of original contributors - Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, and Toni Morrison - join with new pieces by Jill Ker Conway, Eileen ...
Manufacturer: Houghton MifflinWritten By: Annie Dillard, Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Ian Frazier, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Alfred Kazin, Toni Morrison, Eileen Simpson
Conway's distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth world and the United States includes contributions by Shirley Chisholm, Janet Frame, Rosemary Brown, Dorothy Livesay, Gabrielle Roy, Kim Chernin, and others.
Manufacturer: VintageWritten By: Jill Ker Conway
The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.