Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0472119524 ISBN 13: 9780472119523

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Dear Wizard is a carefully selected, highly crafted gathering of letters from over three decades of correspondence between authors Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. This correspondence, in part a contest to outdo one another with exotic and outlandish letterhead, ranges in tone from carefree to grave and covers topics as diverse as the art and practice of writing, the state of the writer’s profession, and age, illness, love, and loss.

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L'autore:

Nicholas Delbanco is The Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He has published twenty-eight books of fiction and nonfiction. He directs the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan; he has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, has served on the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and has received such awards as the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and, twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.
Jon Manchip White (1924-2013) was a distinguished Welsh-American writer who has published over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry over a long writing career. His works of fiction include novels, collections of short stories, and many scripts for film and television. His nonfiction books include history, biography, archaeology, anthropology, travel, and personal essays.

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Nicholas Delbanco has assembled a carefully selected, highly crafted work based on over 30 years' correspondence with Jon Manchip White, a prolific author of screenplays, novels, and radio plays; a university professor; and a "bon vivant." Delbanco's exchange of letters with the larger-than-life figure began in 1980 and continued until White's death in the summer of 2012. The two authors' interaction is framed by a contest to outdo each other in locales and institutions represented on the letterheads and stationery employed. The letters range from light to serious, at times investigating the art and practice of writing; critiquing the authors' own work and that of colleagues; assessing the state of the writering profession; negotiating age, illness, and loss.

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• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0472119524
• ISBN 13: 9780472119523
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 732
• Redattore: Delbanco Nicholas