- The Clockwork Muse
- Eviatar Zerubavel
- The Clockwork Muse is designed to help prospective authors develop a workable timetable for completing long and often formidable projects.Eviatar Zerubavel, a prolific and successful author, describes how to set up a writing schedule and regular work habits that will take most of the anxiety and procrastination out of long-term writing, and even make it enjoyable. The Clockwork Muse rethinks the writing process in terms of time and organization.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- How To Do Biography
- Nigel Hamilton
- Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer’s craft.
- Hardcover 2008
- Writing and Being
- Nadine Gordimer
- In this deeply resonant book, Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction by exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa and the works of Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Oz. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
