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How to write like Tolstoy a journey into the minds of our greatest writers

Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced--and how they surmounted them.

Main Author: Cohen, Richard, 1947- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2016]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Fiction > Authorship.
Fiction > Technique.
Authorship.
Summary: Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced--and how they surmounted them.
Physical Description: xx, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-293) and index.
ISBN: 9780812998306
0812998308
Author Notes: Richard Cohen is the former publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton and the founder of Richard Cohen Books. Works that he has edited have gone on to win the Pulitzer, Booker, and Whitbread/Costa prizes, and more than twenty have been #1 bestsellers. The author of By the Sword, an award-winning history of swordplay, and Chasing the Sun, a wide-ranging narrative account of the star that gives us life, he was for two years program director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and for seven years a visiting professor in creative writing at the University of Kingston-upon-Thames. He has written for The New York Times and most leading London newspapers, and is currently at work on a history of historians. He lives in New York City.

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