The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer.

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With this collection of letters, presented for the first time as a Scribner Classic, a new Hemingway emerges.

"With sensitivity and humor, Judy Blume has captured the joys, fears, and uncertainties that surround a girl approaching adolescence."--"Publishers Weekly." Great Stone Face Award winner. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

In this authoritative text with generous annotations, a distinguished literary scholar has corrected errors and omissions from previous editions, with notes taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts and quotes from sources Thoreau read.

A biography of the science fiction writer, presented by his son, describes Herbert's childhood in Tacoma, Washington, his early years as a reporter and editor, his military service, and his struggles to become published.

"Zephyr, Alabama, has been an idyllic home for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson ... a place where monsters swim in the belly of the river, and friends are forever.

Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.

Richard Wright describes what it was like growing up in Jim Crow-era Mississippi.