Call It Experience

The Years of Learning How to Write

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Erskine Caldwell

Verlag:

University of Georgia Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34722294

EAN: 9780820318493

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Zustellung: Mi, 19.08.2026

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Beschreibung

This memoir presents an engaging self-portrait of Erskine Caldwell's first thirty years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial authors of his time. While conveying the enormous amount of drive and dedication with which he pursued the writer's life, Caldwell tells of his struggles to find his own voice, his travels, and his various jobs, which ranged from back-breaking common labor to much sought-after positions in radio, film, and journalism. Such literary personages as Nathanael West, Maxwell Perkins, and Margaret Mitchell appear in "Call It Experience," as does Margaret Bourke-White, with whom he collaborated on a number of projects and whom he also married. Including a self-interview, "Call It Experience" offers a wealth of insights into Caldwell's imagination, his sources of inspiration, and his writing habits, as well as his views on critics and reviewers, publishers, and booksellers. It is a source of both information and inspiration to aspiring writers.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Erskine Caldwell

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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