This is the book about one of the world’s great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro’s life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro’s admirers everywhere. By follo...(展开全部)

This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her sho...(展开全部)

This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly...(展开全部)

This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly...(展开全部)

Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature’s most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world’s most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process. Unlike how-to books that preach writing t...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 1882-1941 英国作家、文学批评家和文学理论家。生于英国伦敦，父亲莱斯利·斯蒂芬爵士是学者。 1915年，出版第一部小说《远航》，在第一次世界大战期间，伍尔夫夫妇创立霍加斯出版社，出版了T.S.艾略特、E.M.福斯特、凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德、陀思妥耶夫斯基等人的著作。 除了意识流小说，伍尔夫还留下大量日记、书信集和评论文章，被誉为“新散文的开创者”。

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 1882-1941 英国作家、文学批评家和文学理论家。生于英国伦敦，父亲莱斯利·斯蒂芬爵士是学者。 1915年，出版第一部小说《远航》，在第一次世界大战期间，伍尔夫夫妇创立霍加斯出版社，出版了T.S.艾略特、E.M.福斯特、凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德、陀思妥耶夫斯基等人的著作。 除了意识流小说，伍尔夫还留下大量日记、书信集和评论文章，被誉为“新散文的开创者”。

In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children an...(展开全部)

Neuroscientist and debut novelist Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's—she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard, living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband, John, arguing about the usual (making quality time together, their daughter's m...(展开全部)