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Studying with Miss Bishop : memoirs from a young writers life
- Title
- Studying with Miss Bishop : memoirs from a young writers life / Dana Gioia.
- Author
- Gioia, Dana
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2021.
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-964 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 182 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In Studying with Miss Bishop, Dana Gioia discusses six people who helped him become a writer and better understand what it meant to dedicate one's life to writing. Four were famous authors--Elizabeth Bishop, John Cheever, James Dickey, and Robert Fitzgerald. Two were unknown--Gioia's Merchant Marine uncle and Ronald Perry, a forgotten poet. Each of the six essays provides a vivid portrait; taken together they tell the story of Gioia's own journey from working-class LA to international literary success."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Lonely impulse of delight: one reader's childhood -- Studying with Miss Bishop -- Remembering Robert Fitzgerald -- A week with John Cheever -- "How nice to meet you, Mr. Dickey" -- Letters form the Bahamas: memoir of a poet I never met -- Postscript: Being outted -- Appendix: A conversation with John Cheever.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-964
- ISBN
- 1589881516
- 9781589881518
- OCLC
- 1144112192
- Author
- Gioia, Dana, author.
- Title
- Studying with Miss Bishop : memoirs from a young writers life / Dana Gioia.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First Paul Dry Books edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-964