ISBN: 9781350272262

Description: xviii, 237 pages ; 22 cm

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• Part One School : Teachers we remember: Gerrit Gouws / J.M. Coetzee
• Mabel Morrill / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
• Learning curve / Catherine Aird
• A way with words / Michael Scammell
• Peter Way / Andrew Motion
• My grandfather and my other teachers / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
• Il Miglior Fabbro / George Howe Colt
• Part Two College : The perilous balance of Marvin Eisenberg / Jeffrey Meyers
• W. Edward Brown : Many years of mentoring / Jay Parini
• David Milch and the strategies of indirection in fiction / William Logan
• Part Three Graduate school and after : My Doktorvater: Alvin Kernan / Stephen Greenblatt
• A far cry from Oxbridge / Margaret Drabble
• The right words / Carl Rollyson
• Remembering Allen Mandelbaum / Paul Mariani
• Sketch of a professor: Roger Gilliatt / Michael J. Aminoff
• How lucky I was... / Ann Thwaite
• J.P. Stern: The professor from Prague / Daniel Johnson
• George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent / Robert Boyers
• Class struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford / Dana Gioia
• V.S. Naipaul, the drill sergeant / Paul Theroux.

Control Number: 3282606

Subjects:

• Authors -- Education.
• Authorship -- Study and teaching.
• Mentoring of authors.

Other Authors:

• Aird, Catherine, author.
• Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey), author.
• Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
• Boyers, Robert, author.
• Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author.
• Colt, George Howe, author.
• Drabble, Margaret, 1939- author.
• Gerzina, Gretchen, author.
• Gioia, Dana, author.
• Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- author.
• Johnson, Daniel, 1957- author.
• Logan, William, 1950 November 16- author.
• Mariani, Paul L., author.
• Meyers, Jeffrey, author.
• Motion, Andrew, 1952- author.
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- author.
• Parini, Jay, author.
• Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund), author.
• Scammell, Michael, author.
• Theroux, Paul, author.
• Thwaite, Ann, author.