{"product_id":"writers-and-their-teachers-9781350272262","title":"Writers and Their Teachers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. \u003c\/b\u003eNobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Andrew Motion, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and Paul Theroux are among the twenty contributors of original essays to this landmark volume celebrating masters of the teaching profession.What makes a good teacher? What lights the writer's creative fire? How can the teacher shape the writer? This book answers these questions and more, describing the powerful influence of mentors at an impressionable time of life, portraying the heart-warming transition from pupil to friend, and exploring the lasting impact that truly great teachers can have on their students.To have teachers who care, and to have such notable writers capture their spirit, is ample reason to read Dale Salwak''s elegant celebration of the noble profession' and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the essays deserve high praise. Seldom does one encounter such a wealth of good prose within the covers of a single volume. The book is itself \u003cb\u003einspirational, teaching much about writing and teaching, thinking and living.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Éilís Ní Dhuibhne * The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe best are excellent, memorializing through striking detail teachers – some exceptionally charismatic – who understood their pupils as well as they did the importance of all they were passing on to them. -- Catharine Morris * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eI found myself pleasurably immersed in the recollections of a network of individuals for whom writing became not only the centre of their universe but a necessary condition for living. ... [A] delightfully entertaining collection. * Bennett Arnold Society Newsletter *\u003cbr\u003eCelebrates how some of the leading writers of our time have been shaped by inspirational teachers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eDale Salwak has created a collection that should be required reading for all prospective teachers. Elegant praise for their teachers comes from Jay Parini, Margaret Drabble, Dana Gioia, and many others. -- Linda Wagner-Martin, Hanes Professor, University of North Carolina, USA\u003cbr\u003eThere is no model, no formula. Chance encounters, dusty school teachers, maverick professors, illiterate grandfathers. Twenty authors ruminate on the relationships that lit the first steps of their careers. Nothing could be more fascinating. -- Tim Parks, author of 'Where I'm Reading From, the Changing World of Books'\u003cbr\u003eWriters and their Teachers offers a thought-provoking read to anyone interested in understanding the myriad ways a young writer's wish to write can be massaged from dormancy, their capacities strengthened, by encountering the \"right\" teacher in their youth. The best among the 20 essays describe the enhanced mastery of writing made possible when two people pay careful attention to each other. -- Janna Malamud Smith, author of 'An Absorbing Errand: How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery'\u003cbr\u003eThe gifts are different — legitimacy, confidence, the value of hard work, skepticism, provocation — but the gratitude is the same. A collection of moving tributes to the often mysterious figures who have, firmly, gently, and at times unconsciously made literature seem possible. -- Stacy Schiff, author of 'The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Notes on Contributors Part I School 1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws \u003ci\u003e J. M. Coetzee\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e 2 \u003c\/i\u003eMabel Morrill \u003ci\u003eGretchen Holbrook Gerzina\u003c\/i\u003e 3 Learning Curve \u003ci\u003e Catherine Aird\u003c\/i\u003e 4 A Way with Words \u003ci\u003e Michael Scammell\u003c\/i\u003e 5 Peter Way \u003ci\u003e Andrew Motion\u003c\/i\u003e 6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers \u003ci\u003eNgugi \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewa Thiong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e’o\u003c\/i\u003e 7 Il Miglior Fabbro \u003ci\u003e George Howe Colt\u003c\/i\u003e Part II College 8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Meyers\u003c\/i\u003e 9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring \u003ci\u003eJay Parini\u003c\/i\u003e 10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction \u003ci\u003eWilliam Logan\u003c\/i\u003e Part III Graduate School and After 11 My Doktorvater \u003ci\u003e Stephen Greenblatt\u003c\/i\u003e 12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge \u003ci\u003eMargaret Drabble\u003c\/i\u003e 13 The Right Words \u003ci\u003eCarl Rollyson\u003c\/i\u003e 14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum \u003ci\u003e Paul Mariani\u003c\/i\u003e 15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt \u003ci\u003eMichael J. Aminoff\u003c\/i\u003e 16 How Lucky I Was . . . \u003ci\u003eAnn Thwaite\u003c\/i\u003e 17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague \u003ci\u003eDaniel Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e 18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent \u003ci\u003eRobert Boyers\u003c\/i\u003e 19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford \u003ci\u003eDana Gioia\u003c\/i\u003e 20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant \u003ci\u003ePaul Theroux\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866598158679,"sku":"9781350272262","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350272262.jpg?v=1722279393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writers-and-their-teachers-9781350272262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}