An Autobiographical Letter : 5-stars review rating from Readers' Favorite! How do life experiences feed into the books that an author writes? In An Autobiographical Letter , Norman Weeks recounts the experiential origins of his writings. Looking back over his first fifty years, he presents a comprehensive treatment of his life, especially those aspects that proved source material for what he would eventually write: His upbringing, education, maturation, personal interactions with friends and lovers, adventures and ...
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An Autobiographical Letter : 5-stars review rating from Readers' Favorite! How do life experiences feed into the books that an author writes? In An Autobiographical Letter , Norman Weeks recounts the experiential origins of his writings. Looking back over his first fifty years, he presents a comprehensive treatment of his life, especially those aspects that proved source material for what he would eventually write: His upbringing, education, maturation, personal interactions with friends and lovers, adventures and misadventures, travels and travails, expatriation. A rich life, a rich lode for literary mining. The principal theme of An Autobiographical Letter , a literary biography, is the pursuit of personal vocation. We follow the thought processes of an author-at-work, as he reports on his various literary projects, -their roots, the subjects and their treatment, the difficulties of composition, the relation of form to content, revisions and new versions in the pursuit of perfection. In all, a self-revelation and an exegesis of the author's works.
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