An insightful literary biography of the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee s, illuminating the creation of his extraordinary novels J. M. Coetzee is one of the most renowned yet elusive authors of our time. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative process behind Coetzee's work, from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus . Drawing on Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks and research papers housed at the Harry...