The Hidden Writer Diaries and the Creative Life
- List Price: $16.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Publish date: 03/01/1998
Description:
Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" Virginia Woolf's question is one that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have asked of their own diaries. Presenting seven portraits of literary and creative lives, Alexandra Johnson's The Hidden Writer illuminates the secret world of writers and their diaries. In Sonya Tolstoy's diary, we witness the conflict between love and vocation; in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf's friendship, the nettle of rivalry among writing equals is revealed; and in Alice James's diary, begun at age forty, the feelings of competition within a creative family are explored.
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The Hidden Writer shows how the diaries of Marjory Fleming, Sonya Tolstoy, Alice James, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin, and May Sarton negotiated the obstacle course of silence, ambition, envy, and fame. Destined to become a classic on writing and the diary as literary form, this is an essential book for anyone interested in the evolution of creative life.
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Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
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