On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner\'s distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. "For a certain kind of person," Gardner writes, "nothing is mo.
With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and what, in general, he or she cannot.
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner\'s distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher