Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction - Softcover

Moore, Dinty W.

 
9781582977966: Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction

Synopsis

Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"—a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief t

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About the Author

Dinty W. Moore was born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania. He earned a BA in writing from the University of Pittsburgh, worked briefly as a journalist, and also served short stints as a documentary filmmaker, modern dance performer, zookeeper, and Greenwich Village waiter. It was only after failing at each of these professions that he went on to earn an MFA in fiction writing from Louisiana State University.

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