Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink

by Marianne Gingher

Book Overview

She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, '60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture, the experience of writing as a mother, and the process of novel-writing as compared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826218172
• ISBN13: 9780826218179
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher