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Like to get into the minds of your favorite authors (and editors)? This list of titles, including memoirs, biographies, and treatises on the craft, gets you pretty close.
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Margaret Atwood – Negotiating with the Dead
Ray Bradbury – Zen in the Art of Writing
Dorothea Brande – Becoming a Writer
Dorothea Brande – Wake Up and Live
Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me – by Andy Martin
Julia Cameron – The Artist’s Way
Annie Dillard – The Writing Life
Janet Evanovich – How I Write
Roxane Gay – Unti on Writing
Elizabeth George – Write Away
John Gardner – On Becoming A Novelist
John Gardner – The Art of Fiction
Elizabeth Gilbert – Big Magic
Natalie Goldberg – Wild Mind
Natalie Goldberg – Writing Down the Bones
William Goldman – Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman – Which Lie Do I Tell?
Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway on Writing – edited by Larry W Phillips
Stephen King – On Writing
Anne Lamott – Bird by Bird
Elmore Leonard – Ten Rules of Writing
David Morrell – The Successful Novelist
Chuck Palahniuk – Consider This
Ann Patchett – The Getaway Car
Ann Patchett – This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius – by A. Scott Berg
Steven Pressfield – Do the Work
Steven Pressfield – Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
Steven Pressfield – The Authentic Swing
Steven Pressfield – The Knowledge: A too close to true novel
Steven Pressfield – The War of Art
Steven Pressfield – Turning Pro
Francine Prose – Reading Like a Writer
Philip Pullman – Daemon Voices
Ayn Rand – The Art of Fiction
Dani Shapiro – Still Writing
Sol Stein (editor) – Stein on Writing
Eudora Welty – On Writing
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