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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
Contributor(s): Johnson, Charles (Author)

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ISBN: 1501147226     ISBN-13: 9781501147227
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
Dewey: 808.02
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" L (0.50 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/26/2016
Shelf Awareness 12/23/2016
 
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Publisher Description:
From Charles Johnson--a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on literature and race--comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.

An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage is a modern classic, revered as much for its daring plot as its philosophical underpinnings. For thirty-three years, Johnson taught and mentored students in the art and craft of creative writing. The Way of the Writer is his record of those years, and the coda to a kaleidoscopic, boundary-shattering career.

Organized into six accessible, easy-to-navigate sections, The Way of the Writer is both a literary reflection on the creative impulse and a utilitarian guide to the writing process. Johnson shares his lessons and exercises from the classroom, starting with word choice, sentence structure, and narrative voice, and delving into the mechanics of scene, dialogue, plot and storytelling before exploring the larger questions at stake for the serious writer. What separates literature from industrial fiction? What lies at the heart of the creative impulse? How does one navigate the literary world? And how are philosophy and fiction concomitant?

Luminous, inspiring, and imminently accessible, The Way of the Writer is a revelatory glimpse into the mind of the writer and an essential guide for anyone with a story to tell.


Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Charles: - Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King's Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.
 
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