Living With a Writer (PDF)

CATHERINE AIRD Author of detective fiction
BRIAN W. ALDISS Novelist/ science-fiction author
FRANCES H. BACHELDER Poet and novelist
JOHN BAYLEY Husband of the late Iris Murdoch; Warton Professor of English Emeritus, Oxford University and novelist
JAMES J. BERG Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, USA
ANNE BERNAYS Teaches at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; novelist
MALCOLM BRADBURY Formerly Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; novelist
JUDY CARVER Daughter of William Golding; novelist
MARY ANN CAWS Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School of the City University of New York, USA; writer and biographer
GEORGE HOWE COLT Novelist and former journalist
AMANDA CRAIG Novelist and Journalist for The Sunday Times, The Times, The New Statesman, and The Independent
MARGARET DRABBLE Novelist
BETTY FUSSELL Author of biographies and memoirs
NADINE GORDIMER Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; Novelist and Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice President of PEN International and a Goodwill Ambassaor of UNDP
JOHN HALPERIN Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographer
MICHAEL HOLROYD Novelist
JUSTIN KAPLAN Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1966; novelist and biographer
JEFFREY MEYERS Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographer
EDMUND MORRIS Winner of Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980, Member of the Modern Library Editorial Board and writer in residence at the University of Chicago; biographer
HERSHEL PARKER Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville; biographer
ROB ROLLISON Retired from the University of South Australia; currently researching and writing on modern poets and their

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'For the first time, spouses, children and parents of writers have collaborated in compiling their experiences of living with a scribe, remembrances which reveal their frustrations, irritations and sheer madness of sharing a roof with an ink-stained genius.' - Amelia Hill, The Observer

'Pleasing and interesting...' - Literary Review

'The range does the book credit...we hear as much about the satisfaction of mutual support, the thrill of being the first to read a new thing, and the fascination of watching experience turn into words, as we do about the misery of Emma Hardy...or what Colt calls the unions that 'could only end in alcoholism and madness (the Fitzgeralds), black eyes and hurled martini glasses (McCarthy and Wilson), or separation and suicide (Hughes and Plath)''. - Andrew Motion, The Guardian

'...[includes] a series of touching accounts of domestic happiness...[although] the popular image of writers as selfish brutes is affirmed in the shorter section of the book, 'The Problems', which features failed marriages and disastrous relationships' - Jessica Mann, The Literary Review

'Everyone agrees that writers' lives are internal and invisible in certain crucial ways, and most people also suppose that the parts which do show are predictably unpleasant... [However, in this book] we hear as much about the satisfaction of mutual support, the thrill of being the first to read a new thing, and the fascination of watching experience turn into words, as we do about the misery...' - Andrew Motion, Guardian Online

'[F]or every account that supports the perception that writers are self-centered, moody, brooding enigmas of petulant genius, there are uplifting tales of support, nurturing and inspiration' - Nicholas A. Basbanes, LA Times

'The editor of this intriguing little medley asked a number of writers to write something about living with a writer...the brief has been liberally interpreted, which makes it all the