Living with a Writer

A collection of essays on the benefits and challenges of being, or living with, a writer includes Nadine Gordimer's reflections on living with herself, Margaret Drabble on her relationship with Malcolm Holroyd, and Paul Theroux's experiences with V. S. Naipaul.

CATHERINE AIRD Author of detective fictionBRIAN W. ALDISS Novelist/ science-fiction authorFRANCES H. BACHELDER Poet and novelistJOHN BAYLEY Husband of the late Iris Murdoch; Warton Professor of English Emeritus, Oxford University and novelistJAMES J. BERG Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, USAANNE BERNAYS Teaches at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; novelistMALCOLM BRADBURY Formerly Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; novelistJUDY CARVER Daughter of William Golding; novelistMARY ANN CAWS Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School of the City University of New York, USA; writer and biographerGEORGE HOWE COLT Novelist and former journalistAMANDA CRAIG Novelist and Journalist for The Sunday Times, The Times, The New Statesman, and The IndependentMARGARET DRABBLE NovelistBETTY FUSSELL Author of biographies and memoirsNADINE GORDIMER Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; Novelist and Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice President of PEN International and a Goodwill Ambassaor of UNDPJOHN HALPERIN Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographerMICHAEL HOLROYD NovelistJUSTIN KAPLAN Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1966; novelist and biographerJEFFREY MEYERS Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographerEDMUND MORRIS Winner of Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980, Member of the Modern Library Editorial Board and writer in residence at the University of Chicago; biographerHERSHEL PARKER Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville; biographerROB ROLLISON Retired from the University of South Australia; currently researching and writing on modern poets and their politicsKATHLEEN SYMONS Wife of Julian Symons, writerANN THWAITE Author of children's books and biographies; Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteraturePAUL THEROUX NovelistDAVID UPDIKE Associate Professor of English, Roxbury Community College, Boston, USA; author of children's books and novelistJOHN UPDIKE Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; novelistLAUREL YOUNG Currently completing PhD in Literature, Vanderbilt University

CATHERINE AIRD Author of detective fictionBRIAN W. ALDISS Novelist/ science-fiction authorFRANCES H. BACHELDER Poet and novelistJOHN BAYLEY Husband of the late Iris Murdoch; Warton Professor of English Emeritus, Oxford University and novelistJAMES J. BERG Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, USAANNE BERNAYS Teaches at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; novelistMALCOLM BRADBURY Formerly Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; novelistJUDY CARVER Daughter of William Golding; novelistMARY ANN CAWS Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School of the City University of New York, USA; writer and biographerGEORGE HOWE COLT Novelist and former journalistAMANDA CRAIG Novelist and Journalist for The Sunday Times, The Times, The New Statesman, and The IndependentMARGARET DRABBLE NovelistBETTY FUSSELL Author of biographies and memoirsNADINE GORDIMER Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; Novelist and Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice President of PEN International and a Goodwill Ambassaor of UNDPJOHN HALPERIN Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographerMICHAEL HOLROYD NovelistJUSTIN KAPLAN Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1966; novelist and biographerJEFFREY MEYERS Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographerEDMUND MORRIS Winner of Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980, Member of the Modern Library Editorial Board and writer in residence at the University of Chicago; biographerHERSHEL PARKER Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville; biographerROB ROLLISON Retired from the University of South Australia; currently researching and writing on modern poets and their politicsKATHLEEN SYMONS Wife of Julian Symons, writerANN THWAITE Author of children's books and biographies; Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteraturePAUL THEROUX NovelistDAVID UPDIKE Associate Professor of English, Roxbury Community College, Boston, USA; author of children's books and novelistJOHN UPDIKE Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; novelistLAUREL YOUNG Currently completing PhD in Literature, Vanderbilt University