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First Words
Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
Contributors
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Jun 17, 2013
- Page Count
- 288 pages
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781565127364
Price
$11.99Price
$15.99 CADFormat
Format:
- ebook $11.99 $15.99 CAD
- Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD
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Most kid write stories. A few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before Stephen King created Carrie, he created Jhonathan, at age nine. And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, there was Manuel Citarro, the detective in John Updike’s hard-boiled mystery, written at fourteen. Before Jurassic Park, there was young Michael Crichton’s story about the mysteriously wounded man lying unattended in the street.
Editor Paul Mandelbaum persuaded our most popular American authors to share their childhood writings and their treasured photographs. What he’s gathered is a fascinating, delightful collection of writing and early snapshots that reveal young minds at work, wrestling with early versions of ideas that were to take hold of their writings in later years. Of course, the young Madeline L’Engle would wonder about space and the meaning of eternity. Of course, Margaret Atwood would question conventional female behavior, arguing for the right to smoke cigars.
Other writers featured in this volume include Amy Tan, Paul Bowles, Michael Crichton, Ursula K. LeGuin, Tobias Wolff, and more.
