Dear Wizard

The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-472-11952-3
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 784 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 199 mm x 305 mm, Gewicht: 2295 g

Nicholas Delbanco has assembled a carefully selected, highly crafted work based on over 30 years’ correspondence with Jon Manchip White, a prolific author of screenplays, novels, and radio plays; a university professor; and a “bon vivant.” Delbanco’s exchange of letters with the larger-than-life figure began in 1980 and continued until White’s death in the summer of 2012. The two authors’ interaction is framed by a contest to outdo each other in locales and institutions represented on the letterheads and stationery employed. The letters range from light to serious, at times investigating the art and practice of writing; critiquing the authors’ own work and that of colleagues; assessing the state of the writering profession; negotiating age, illness, and loss.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delbanco, Nicholas

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Delbanco is Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, USA and past director of the MFA program. He has published 25 books of fiction and nonfiction. He directs the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.

Jon Manchip White was a distinguished Welsh-American writer who published more than 30 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry over a long writing career. His works of fiction include novels, collections of short stories, and many scripts for film and television. His nonfiction books include history, biography, archaeology, anthropology, travel, and personal essays.