The Hidden Writer : Diaries and the Creative Life by Alexandra Johnson HC/DJ

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ISBN
9780385478298
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Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385478291
ISBN-13
9780385478298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
606359

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hidden Writer : Diaries and the Creative Life
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Women, Women Authors, Diaries & Journals, Creative Ability, Women's Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, Psychology
Author
Alexandra Johnson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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LCCN
96-034066
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
818/.03
Synopsis
In October, 1928 Virginia Woolf sat at her trestle writing table, a notebook open before her, and wrote, "Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page? " It's a question that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have also asked of their own diaries. No other document quite compares with the intimacies and yearnings, the confessions and desires as those revealed in the pages of a diary.The Hidden Writeris the first book to focus on how each generation of writers has used the diary to independently solve a common set of creative and life questions. Organized chronologically, the book traces the creative arc of seven writers from age seven to seventy, showing how the diary, as catalyst, helped shape the work and life. Presenting seven portraits of literary and creative lives, Alexandra Johnson illuminates the secret world of writers and their diaries. A time-lapse study of confidence,The Hidden Writershows how seven very different writers all used the diary to negotiate the obstacle course of silence and ambition, envy, voice and fame. Sofia Tolstoy's diary describes the conflict between love and vocation; in Katherine Mansfield's and Virginia Woolf's friendship and writings, the nettle of rivalry among equals is pursued, and in Alice James' diary, started at age 40, the feelings of competition within a creative family are elaborated. Winner of the PEN /Jerard Fund Award Special Citation for a non-fiction work in progress,The Hidden Writeris essential for anyone interested in the connection between diaries and creative life. "
LC Classification Number
PS409.J64 1997

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