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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780820903321

Autore

Gilchrist Ellen <1935->

Titolo

The writing life [[electronic resource] /] / Ellen Gilchrist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2005

ISBN

1-282-82134-2

9786612821349

1-60473-911-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Creative writing (Higher education)

Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; PART ONE: LIFE; PART TWO: WRITING; PART THREE: TEACHING

Sommario/riassunto

Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist has played many roles-writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she never tackled the role of teacher. Offered the opportunity to teach creative writing at the University of Arkansas, she took up the challenge and ventured into unknown territory. In the process of teaching more than two hundred students since her first class in 2000, she has found inspiration in their lives and ambitions and in the challenge of conveying to them the lessons she has learned from living and writing. The Writing Life brings together fifty essays and vignette