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The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
Maybe someday
33
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
22/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager
Publisher:
HarperOne
Date:
September 8, 2020
Before Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Jonathan Lethem became revered authors, they were readers. In this book, America's favorite librarian Nancy Pearl and noted-playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most influential writers about the books that shaped them and inspired them to leave their own literary mark.
What The Reviewers Say
If you’re an avid reader, it’s a safe bet that at least one of your favorite authors is included. I enjoyed reading the interviews with several of my favorites: Lethem, Egan, T. C. Boyle and Amor Towles.
The questions are well designed to give the author the opportunity to expand on their own lives and what, if any, specifics they have used in their writing.
Pearl, a librarian and critic, and Schwager, a journalist and playwright, bring boundless enthusiasm and curiosity to this eclectic and probing book of interviews.
Gently probing interviews elicited thoughtful responses about books that informed each writer’s literary sensibility and professional aspirations.
