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A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to... read more
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- Tolstoy: Add a description of this character.
- Simenon
- Graham Greene
- Wilson
- Dorothy
- Colette
- Wordsworth
- Malcolm Lowry
- Henry James
- William Maxwell
- Milton
- Martin Amis
- Nabokov
- Anthony Burgess
- Norman Mailer
- John Irving
- Robert Stone
- Madame Bovary
- Sinclair Lewis
- Styron
- Thomas Mann
- Stevenson
- Sonya
- Huxley
- Hugo
- Galdos
- Philip Roth
- Erskine Caldwell
- Flannery O'connor
- Ellison
- Fitzgerald
- Gore Vidal
- Hemingway
- Henry Miller
- Dreiser
- William Goyen
- Evelyn Waugh
- Joan Didion
- John Cheever
- Kingsley Amis
- Samuel Johnson
- Faulkner
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 808
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