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Samuel R. Delany has taught writers workshops for over 35 years, and has won the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. He has also been recognized with both Hugo and Nebula awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Darkroom Black Students Collective at Harvard University. Delany is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University, and lives in New York City.
If you are, like me, a writer--or if you are, also like me involved in the teaching of writing--you regularly find yourself reading books about writing because you are intent upon finding the perfect writer's instructional resource. Well, About Writing may, in fact, be that resource. Seven Essays focus on the different aspects of what Delany calls the mechanics of fiction ; correspondence and interviews contain advice on the art of fiction as well as [Delany's] views on the state of contemporary fiction...The result is a revelation on the art of fiction: how it is created, how the writer's image influences the perception of art, and how that art fits into today's world. Finally, About Writing contains 13 appendixes' each is an exquisite mini-workshop, with topics such as Grammar and Parts of Speech, Dramatic Structure, Point of View, and more.To some readers, Delany the novelist is linked to science fiction (he has won Hugo and Nebula awards), and to other readers, he is re
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