Suggested Reading List for Aspiring Authors and Poets

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie, Random House, New York, 2001

Book, The Magazine For The Reading Life, July/August, 2001

Down and Out In London and Paris, George Orwell, Harcourt, New York, 1933

Every Saint Has A Past, Every Sinner Has A Future, Terry Cole-Whitaker, Putnam, New York City, 2001

How To Write a Book Proposal, Michael Larsen, Writer’s Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997

Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters, Edited by Ann Charters, Penguin, New York, 1996

Novel Ideas, Barbara Shoup and Margaret Love Denman, Alpha Books, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2001

On Writing, Stephen King, Scribner’s, New York City, 2001

On Writing Well, William Zinser, HarperCollins, New York, 2001

Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow, Warner Books, New York, 1987

Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand, Ballantine, New York, 2001

1,818 Ways To Write Better and Get Published, Scott Edelstein, Writer’s Digest Books, Cincinnati, 1991

The Complete Guide To Book Publicity, Jodee Blanco, Allworth Press, New York, 2000

The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Noah Lukeman, Simon and Schuster, 2003

The Writer’s Chapbook, George Plimpton et al, The Modern Library, New York, 1999

Twentieth Century Dictionary of Quotations, Edited by The Princeton Language Institute, The Philip Lief Group, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, New York City, 1993

Various Issues – Writer’s Digest Magazine

Writer’s Guide To Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, Jeff Herman, Prima Publishing, 2002

Writing Down The Bones, Natalie Goldberg, Shambhala, Boston and London, 1986

Your Novel Proposal, From Creation to Contract, Blythe Camenson and Marshall J. Cook, Writer’s Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999

Resources

Daniel Alderson, Talking Back To Poems: A Working Guide for the Aspiring Poet

Briggs, John, Fire in the Crucible: The Self-creation of Creativity and Genius

Brande, Dorothea, Becoming A Writer

Burroway, Janet, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

Buzan, Tony, Use Both Sides of the Brain

Epel, Naomi, Writers Dreaming

Forster, E. M., Aspects of a Novel

Hartwell Fiske, Robert, The Dictionary of Concise Writing: 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases

Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast

Hirsch, Edward, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

Keyes, Ralph, The Courage To Write; How Writers Transcend Fear

Maisell, Eric, Staying Sane In The Arts

May, Rollo, The Courage to Create

Nachmanovitch, Steven, Free Style Improvisation in Life and Art

Perry, Aaren Yeatts, Poetry Across the Curriculum

Rico, Gabrielle Lusser, Writing the Natural Way

Uleland, Brenda, If You Want To Write

Welty, Eudora, One Writer’s Beginnings