Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Williford, Lex

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416531746)

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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Williford, Lex

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

$22.00
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Williford, Lex

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.

Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country, this collection includes only the most highly regarded nonfiction work published since 1970.

Contributers include: Jo Ann Beard, Wendell Berry, Eula Biss, Mary Clearman Blew, Charles Bowden, Janet Burroway, Kelly Grey Carlisle, Anne Carson, Bernard Cooper, Michael W. Cox, Annie Dillard, Mark Doty, Brian Doyle, Tony Earley, Anthony Farrington, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Diane Glancy, Lucy Grealy, William Harrison, Robin Hemley, Adam Hochschild, Jamaica Kincaid, Barbara Kingsolver, Ted Kooser, Sara Levine, E.J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Barry Lopez, Thomas Lynch, Lee Martin, Rebecca McCLanahan, Erin McGraw, John McPhee, Brenda Miller, Dinty W. Moore, Kathleen Norris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lia Purpura, Richard Rhodes, Bill Roorbach, David Sedaris, Richard Selzer, Sue William Silverman, Floyd Skloot, Lauren Slater, Cheryl Strayed, Amy Tan, Ryan Van Meter, David Foster Wallace, and Joy Williams.

Author: Lex Williford
ISBN-10: 1416531742
ISBN-13: 9781416531746
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2007
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.60d
By Lex Williford
By Lex Williford
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Lex Williford teaches in the bilingual writing program at the University of Texas, El Paso. He previously taught in the writing programs at Southern Illinois University and the University of Alabama. His collection of stories, Macauley's Thumb, was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. He lives with his wife in El Paso, Texas.

Michael Martone has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He is currently teaching at the University of Alabama, where he has directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Double-wide: Collected Fiction is his eighth book of stories. Racing in Place, his third book of nonfiction, will be published in 2008. He has edited six other volumes of prose including the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction with Lex Williford. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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