Writers and Their Teachers
eBook - ePub

Writers and Their Teachers

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Writers and Their Teachers

About this book

By 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. Nobel 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 the world-renowned writers that it helped to hone.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Part One School
  9. 1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws
  10. 2 Mabel Morrill
  11. 3 Learning Curve
  12. 4 A Way with Words
  13. 5 Peter Way
  14. 6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers
  15. 7 Il Miglior Fabbro
  16. Part Two College
  17. 8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg
  18. 9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring
  19. 10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction
  20. Part Three Graduate School and After
  21. 11 My Doktorvater: Alvin Kernan
  22. 12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge
  23. 13 The Right Words
  24. 14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum
  25. 15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt
  26. 16 How Lucky I Was . . .
  27. 17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague
  28. 18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent
  29. 19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford
  30. 20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant
  31. Index
  32. Copyright