Dale Salwak
Autor(a) de Wonders of Solitude
About the Author
Dale Salwak is a professor of English at Citrus College. He is a frequent contributor to the London Times, the author of numerous books, including Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature (Iowa, 2008), Kingsley Amis: Modern Novelist and Carl Sandburg: A Reference Guide, and the editor of mostrar mais The Wonders of Solitude, Anne Tyler as Novelist (Iowa, 1994), Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work (Iowa, 1989), and The Life and Work of Barbara Pym (Iowa, 1987). mostrar menos
Obras por Dale Salwak
Mystery Voices: Interviews With British Mystery Writers (Brownstone Mystery Guide, Vol 8) (1991) 2 exemplares
Lecture Notes 1 exemplar
Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (no mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- La Verne, California, USA
- Educação
- Purdue University (BA)
University of Southern California (MA, PhD) - Ocupações
- professor of English, Citrus College
Magician
co-owner, Chavez School of Magic - Organizações
- University of Southern California
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Dale Salwak was educated at Purdue University and the University of Southern California. He is now Professor of English at Southern California's Citrus College.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 23
- Membros
- 349
- Popularidade
- #68,500
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 60
- Línguas
- 2
This is an excellent book for anyone who likes to read something relatively short before bed that leans heavily toward the positive. From warm remembrances to interesting anecdotes, these essays show just how important the right person can be at the right time in someone's life. In this case, teachers/mentors.
This can, for an active reader, be a wonderful source of ways to reach your own students, not just writing students. Admittedly this is not designed for that purpose, but one hopes that anyone teaching creative writing is creative and active enough in their reading to find the core of each of these essays and translate most of them into actions that might have a positive affect on their students. Unless, of course, the "teacher" needs a step-by-step regimen, which pretty much means she/he may well be employed as a teacher but she/he is not an educator.
Recommended for those wanting memoirish essays about mentorship for pleasure reading as well as those looking for tidbits for being a more effective writer or educator. Though finding those tidbits does require being a creative and active reader and not a passive reader that needs one's hand held.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (mais)