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Mentors, muses & monsters : 30 writers on the people who changed their lives / edited by Elizabeth Benedict.

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New York : Free Press, 2009.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Autobiographies.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009009640-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009009640-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2009009640-s.html

9781439108611 :

x, 278 p. ; 24 cm.

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Part I: people we encountered -- "Why not say what happened?": remembering Miss Hardwick / Elizabeth Benedict -- Imagining influence / Robert Boyers -- Fathers / Jay Cantor -- Mentors in general, Peter Taylor in particular / John Casey -- Life in books / Maud Casey -- Annie Dillard and the writing life / Alexander Chee -- Snow globe / Jonathan Safran Foer -- When Julie met Deb / Julia Glass -- Tiger and the pelican: mentors Elizabeth Hardwick and Janice Thaddeus / Mary Gordon -- Moment / Arnon Grunberg -- Only plump the pillows / Margot Livesey -- Sontag's rules / Sigrid Nunez -- In the absence of mentors/monsters: notes on writerly influences / Joyce Carol Oates -- Scholars and the pornographer / Carolyn See -- "But what I really love about this is this amazing game that you've invented": an appreciation of John Hawkes / Jim Shepard -- Munro country / Cheryl Strayed -- Mother country / Evelyn Toynton -- Seducer / Lily Tuck -- Harold Brodkey / Edmund White.

Part II: books we read -- Company / Michael Cunningham -- Five million head of cattle / Samantha Hunt -- On fat city / Denis Johnson -- Mad hope and mavericks / ZZ Packer -- Getting it. Deeply immersed. In awe. Learning. Reading Ms. McDermott. Appreciating beginnings. Still appreciating beginnings. Nailing it. / Anita Shreve -- Paper mentors / Martha Southgate -- Part III: times of our lives -- Coming of age at bread loaf / Christopher Castellani -- Please don't write / Neil Gordon -- Storying / Dinaw Mengestu -- Growing pains / Caryl Phillips -- Iowa City, 1974 / Jane Smiley.

Elizabeth Benedict assembles thirty writers who tell of the biggest influence on their lives, either persons, books, or events.

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