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Author: Marianne Gingher
ISBN: 9780826218179

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She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, '60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture, the experience of writing as a mother, and the process of novel-writing as compared to a lengthy family car trip.
Featuring guest appearances by other writers such as Fred Chappell, Max Steele, and Annie Dillard plus cameos by the likes of Patty Hearst, Richard Nixon, and Bon Jovi, Adventures in Pen Land celebrates writing as a form of play that Gingher has never outgrown. The lighthearted illustrations by novelist Daniel Wallace (author of Big Fish) serve to reinforce this refreshing message as they depict one writer and her imagination growing up together. Adventures in Pen Land conveys a writer's sheer doggedness, with a few bones of advice tossed in along the way. Candid and irreverent, but always humane, this memoir is must reading for fans of Southern literature, students of creative writing, and anyone who can't resist the treat of reading about a writer's resilience and dedication to her craft.

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Title Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink
Author Marianne Gingher
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 200
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Missouri Press, Many
Publication date 2008
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780826218179 / 0826218172
Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.02 cm)
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Authorship, Authors, American - 20th century
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008022253
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Marianne Gingher is the author of four previous books, including Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit, which was made into an NBC movie and, most recently, A Girl's Life: Horses, Boys, Weddings and Luck. Her fiction and essays have appeared in various periodicals, including the Southern Review, the Oxford American, North American Review, the Washington Post Magazine, Redbook, Seventeen, and the New York Times Book Review. A Girl's Life received a 2001 Best Book of the Year award from Foreword magazine. The mother of two grown sons, she currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is Associate Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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