Odd Type Writers

by Celia Blue Johnson

  Pilling, Claudia, Diana Schilling, and Mirjam Springer. Schiller (Life and Times). Translated by Angus McGeoch. London: Haus Publishing, 2005.

  Scherr, Johannes. Schiller and His Times. Philadelphia: Ig Kohler, 1880.

  The Nightlife

  Begley, Louis. Franz Kafka: The Tremendous World Inside My Head. New York: Atlas&Co. Publishers, 2008.

  Carlyle, Thomas. The Life of Friedrich Schiller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885.

  Didion, Joan. “The Art of Fiction No. 71.” Interview by Linda Kuehl. Paris Review, no. 74 (Fall–Winter 1978).

  Fargnoli, A. Nicholas, Michael Golay, and Robert W. Hamblin. Critical Companion to William Faulkner: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2008.

  Frost, Robert. Interviews with Robert Frost. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Madison, Connecticut: Jeffrey Norton Publishers, 1997.

  Hamilton, Ian. In Search of J. D. Salinger. New York: Random House, 1988.

  Kafka, Franz. The Basic Kafka. New York: Pocket Books, 1984.

  Lewis Tuten, Nancy Zubizaretta, and John Zubizaretta, eds. The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.

  Mochulsky, Konstantin. Dostoevsky: His Life and Work. Translated by Michael A. Minihan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.

  Parini, Jay. Robert Frost: A Life. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999.

  Wolfe, Tom. Thomas Wolfe Interviewed 1929–1938. Edited by Aldo P. Magi and Richard Walser. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1985.

  By the Cup: Honoré de Balzac

  De Balzac, Honoré. The Correspondence of Honoré de Balzac with a Memoir by His Sister, Madame de Surville. Vols. 1 and 2. Translated by C. Lamb Kenney. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1878.

  Keim, Albert, and Louis Lumet. Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Frederic Taber Cooper. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914.

  Robb, Graham. Balzac: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.

  Drinks with Inks

  De Beauvoir, Simone. “The Art of Fiction No. 35.” Interview by Madeleine Gobeil. Paris Review, no. 34 (Spring–Summer 1965).

  Fitch, Noël Riley, and Andrew Midgley. The Grand Literary Cafes of Europe. London: New Holland Publishers, 2006.

  Fox, Christopher. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

  “A French Literary Café.” The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art. Vol. 52–54 (July–October 1898).

  Johnson, Samuel. The Life of Pope. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899.

  Lewis, C. S. The Essential C. S. Lewis. Edited by Lyle W. Dorsett. New York: Scribner, 1996.

  ———. Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories. New York: Mariner Books, 2002.

  Ukers, William Harrison. All About Coffee. New York: Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1922.

  Feeling Blue: Alexandre Dumas, père

  Davidson, Arthur Fitzwilliam. Alexandre Dumas (père): His Life and Works. Westminster: Archibald Constable&Co., 1902.

  Dumas, Alexandre. The Novels of Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Alfred Allinson. London: Metheun&Co., 1904.

  Manso, Peter. “Château d’If.” Crime Museum. www.crimemuseum.org/library/imprisonment/chateauDIf.html.

  Samuel, Henry. “Alexandre Dumas Novels Penned by ‘Fourth Musketeer’ Ghost Writer.” The Telegraph. February 10, 2010. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7198679/Alexandre-Dumas-novels-penned-by-fourth-musketeer-ghost-writer.html.

  Whidden, Seth Adam. Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Several Authors, One Pen. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

  The Numbers Game

  Carey, John. William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 2009.

  Cassis, A. F., ed. Graham Greene: Man of Paradox. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1994.

  Chandler, Raymond. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.

  Coyle, John. James Joyce: Ulysses/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 1998.

  Felbermann, Heinrich. The Memoirs of a Cosmopolitan. London: Chapman and Hall, 1936.

  Fensch, Thomas. Conversations with John Steinbeck. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

  Freedman, Carl. Conversations with Isaac Asimov. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

  Hemmings, J. F. W. Alexandre Dumas: The King of Romance. New York: Scribner, 1979.

  King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. New York: Scribner, 2010.

  Manso, Peter. Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Washington Square Press, 2008.

  McCrum, Robert. Wodehouse: A Life. New York: Viking, 2004.

  Parker, Dorothy. “The Art of Fiction No 13.” Interview by Marion Capron. Paris Review, no. 113 (Summer 1956).

  Stashower, Daniel. Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001.

  Thurber, James. “The Art of Fiction No. 10.” Interview by George Plimpton and Max Steele. Paris Review, no. 10 (Fall 1955).

  Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

  Wolfe, Tom. “The Art of Fiction No. 123.” Interview by George Plimpton. Paris Review, no. 118 (Spring 1991).

  House Arrest: Victor Hugo

  Barbou, Alfred. Victor Hugo and His Time. Translated by E. E. Frewer. London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1883.

  Hugo, Adèle. Victor Hugo: A Life Related by One Who Has Witnessed It. Vol. 2. London: W. H. Allen&Co., 1863.

  Hugo, Victor. The Letters of Victor Hugo: To His Family, to Sainte-Beuve and Others. Edited by Paul Meurice. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896.

  Josephson, Matthew. Victor Hugo: A Realistic Biography of the Great Romantic. New York: Jorge Pinto Books, 2006.

  Mauris, Maurice. French Men of Letters. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901.

  Taking It in Stride

  Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. New York: Mariner Books, 1974.

  Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. Knowing Dickens. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.

  Dunaway, David King. Huxley in Hollywood. New York: Anchor Books, 1991.

  Murray, Nicholas. Aldous Huxley: A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 2003.

  Nichols, Lewis. “Talk with Mr. Stevens.” New York Times. October 3, 1954. www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/21/home/stevens-talk.html.

  Parini, Jay. Robert Frost: A Life. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999.

  Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévannes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

  ———. “Walking Tours.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Charles Curtis Bigelow and Temple Scott. Vol. 6. New York: Davos Press, 1906.

  Thoreau, Henry David. Walking. Thoreau Reader. http://thoreau.eserver.org/walking.html (August 1, 2012).

  Tuckerman Mason, Edward, ed. Personal Traits of British Authors. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1885.

  Zack, Wolfgang. Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England, and the World. Edited by Heinz Kosok. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987.

  A Mysterious Tail: Edgar Allan Poe

  Allen, Hervey. Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.

  Poe, Edgar Allan. “Instinct Versus Reason.” The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol II: Tales and Sketches. Edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1978, pp. 477–480.

  ———. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. New York: Henry Frowde, 1903.

  ———. The Unknown Poe. Edited by Raymond Foye. San Francisco: City Light Publishers, 2001.

  Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.

  “Unpublished Correspondence by Edgar A. Poe.” Appletons’ Journal 4 (D. Appleton and Company, 1878), pp. 421–429.

  Scrolling
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br />   Campbell, James. This Is the Beat Generation: New York–San Francisco–Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

  Charters, Ann. Kerouac: A Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

  Shea, Andrea. “Jack Kerouac’s Famous Scroll, ‘On the Road’ Again.” National Public Radio. July 2007. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11709924.

  The Traveling Desk: Charles Dickens

  Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. Knowing Dickens. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.

  Forster, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. Vol 2: 1847–1870. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900.

  Hotten, John Camden. Charles Dickens: The Story of His Life. London: Woodfall and Kinder, 1873.

  Keim, Albert, and Louis Lumet. Charles Dickens. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1914.

  Slater, Michael. Charles Dickens. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

  Tomalin, Claire. Charles Dickens: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.

  Quilled Muses

  Gooch, Brad. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

  Hotten, John Camden. Charles Dickens: The Story of His Life. London: Woodfall and Kinder, 1873.

  Maunder, Andrew. The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story. New York: Facts on File, 2007.

  Poe, Edgar Allan. Poe: Essays and Reviews. Edited by G. R. Thompson. New York: Library of America, 1984.

  Yeats, William Butler. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. Vol III: Autobiographies. Edited by Douglas Archibald and William O’Donnell. New York: Touchstone, 1999.

  Paper Topography: Edith Wharton

  Benstock, Shari. No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

  Lee, Hermoine. Edith Wharton. New York: Vintage, 2008.

  Wharton, Edith. The Writing of Fiction. New York: Scribner, 1997.

  Wilson, Richard Guy, John Arthur, and Pauline C. Metcalf. Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount. New York: Monacelli Press, 2012.

  Bright-Eyed

  Bradbury, Ray. Conversations with Ray Bradbury. Edited by Steven L. Aggelis. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.

  Goldman-Price, Irene. My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

  Krementz, Jill. The Writer’s Desk. New York: Random House, 1996.

  Morrison, Toni. Conversations with Toni Morrison. Edited by Carol C. Denard. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.

  Porter, Katherine Anne. “The Art of Fiction: No. 29.” Interview by Barbara Thompson Davis. Paris Review, no. 29 (Winter–Spring 1963).

  Stegner, Wallace. On Teaching and Writing Fiction. Edited by Lynn Stegner. New York: Penguin, 2002.

  The Cork Shield: Marcel Proust

  Albaret, Céleste. Monsieur Proust. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York: New York Review of Books, 2003.

  Carter, William C. Marcel Proust: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

  Fuss, Diana. A Sense of the Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers That Shaped Them. London: Taylor&Francis, 2004.

  White, Edmund. Marcel Proust: A Life. New York: Viking, 1999.

  Flea Circus: Colette

  Ackerman, Diane. “O Muse! You Do Make Things Difficult!” New York Times. November 12, 1989. www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/reviews/ackerman-poets.html.

  Colette. Earthly Paradise: An Autobiography Drawn from Her Lifetime Writings. Edited by Robert Phelps. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

  ———. Letters from Colette. Translated by Robert Phelps. New York: Ballantine, 1980.

  Mitchell, Yvonne. Colette: A Taste for Life. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

  Paws Between the Pages

  Adams, Maureen. Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë. New York: Ballantine, 2007.

  Brennan, Carlene Fredericka. Hemingway’s Cats. Foreword by Hilary Hemingway. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2011.

  Chandler, Raymond. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

  Dickens, Mary. Charles Dickens, by His Eldest Daughter. New York: Cassell&Company, 1885.

  Poe, Edgar Allan. “Instinct Versus Reason.” The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol II: Tales and Sketches. Edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1978, pp. 477–480.

  Rubin, Karen. “The Morgan Library Gives Access to Creative Process of Cultural Icons.” Examiner.com. April 22, 2012. www.examiner.com/article/the-morgan-library-gives-access-to-creative-process-of-cultural-icons.

  Styron, William. “Walking with Aquinnah.” Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays. New York: Random House, 2009.

  Traffic Jamming: Gertrude Stein

  Clarke, Deborah. Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

  Mellow, James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003.

  Scharff, Virginia. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

  Simon, Linda, ed. Gertrude Stein Remembered. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

  Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. New York: Penguin, 2001.

  Toklas, Alice. The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. Guilford: Lyons Press, 1998.

  Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

  On the Move

  Allen, Woody. “The Art of Humor No. 1.” Interview by Michiko Kakutani. Paris Review, no. 136 (Fall 1995).

  Halpert, Sam. Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.

  Heller, Joseph. Conversations with Joseph Heller. Edited by Adam J. Sorkin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

  Le Carré, John. “The Art of Fiction No. 149.” Interview by George Plimpton. Paris Review, no. 143 (Summer 1997).

  Lockhart, John Gibson. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837.

  “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction.” The Guardian. February 19, 2010. www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one.

  Wiesel, Elie. “The Art of Fiction No. 79.” Interview by John S. Friedman. Paris Review, no. 91 (Spring 1984).

  Tunneling by the Thousands: Jack London

  Haley, James L. Wolf: The Lives of Jack London. New York: Basic Books, 2010.

  Kershaw, Alex. Jack London: A Life. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

  Kingman, Russ. A Pictorial Life of Jack London. New York: Crown Publishing, 1979.

  In the Shadow of Masters

  Angelou, Maya. “The Art of Fiction No. 119.” Interview by George Plimpton. Paris Review, no. 116 (Fall 1990).

  Bradbury, Ray. “The Art of Fiction No. 203.” Interview by Sam Weller. Paris Review, no. 192 (Spring 2010).

  Didion, Joan. “The Art of Fiction No. 71.” Interview by Linda Kuehl. Paris Review, no. 74 (Fall–Winter 1978).

  Krementz, Jill. The Writer’s Desk. New York: Random House, 1996.

  Maugham, W. Somerset. The Summing Up. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran&Co., 1938.

  Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma. New York: Random House, 1999.

  A Writer’s Easel: Virginia Woolf

  Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. New York: Mariner Books, 1974.

  Curtis, Vanessa. Virginia Woolf’s Women. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

  Lee, Hermoine. Virginia Woolf. New York: Vintage, 1996.

  Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol 5: 1936–41. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. New York: Mariner Books, 1985.

  ———. A Writer’s Diary. New York: Mariner Books, 2003.

  Board Writing
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br />   Frost, Robert. “The Art of Poetry No. 2.” Interview by Richard Poirier. Paris Review, no. 24 (Summer–Fall 1960).

  Sturrock, Donald. Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010.

  Walker, Alice. Langston Hughes: American Poet. New York: Amistad, 2005.

  The Full Spectrum

  Blotner, Joseph. Faulkner: A Biography. New York: Vintage, 1991.

  Kipling, Rudyard. A Sussex Kipling: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose. Sussex: Pomegranate Press, 2007.

  Reif, Rita. “Following the Wonderful Logic of ‘Wonderland.” New York Times. November 15, 1998. www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/books/art-architecture-following-the-wonderful-logic-of-wonderland.html.

  Crayon, Scissors, and Paste: James Joyce

  Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. 2nd ed. Lincoln: Bison Books, 1991.

  Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

  Colum, Mary, and Padraic Colum. Our Friend James Joyce. London: Victor Gollancz, 1959.

  Coyle, John. James Joyce: Ulysses/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 1998.

  Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

  Joyce, James. Letters of James Joyce. Vol. 3. Edited by Richard Ellmann. London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

  Litz, A. Walton. The Art of James Joyce: Method and Design in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

  Lyons, J. B. James Joyce and Medicine. New York: Humanities Press, 1974.

  Cigarettes, Twins, and the Evil Eye

  Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

  Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.