EAN: 9781350272262

WRITERS AND THEIR TEACHERS - DUMMY AUTHOR GEBUNDEN

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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