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- catalog abstract "Most kids write stories. Only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. But before there was Carrie, there was "Jhonathan and the Witchs." And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota Dealer, there was Manuel Citarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? Editor Paul Mandelbaum asked scores of authors if they - or their mothers - had saved anything they had written as children or adolescents. Forty-two writers went to their attics and dug up all manner of manuscripts - from the eight-year-old Amy Tan's essay "What the Library Means to Me," to ten-year-old Rita Dove's poem "The Rabbit with the Droopy Ear," to Norman Mailer's action-packed adventure fantasy "The Martian Invasion," also concocted at age ten. Each of the forty-two chapters in First Words includes a brief introduction to the author, the juvenilia with commentary by writer and editor linking the. Childhood and adult work, photographs of the author (then and now), and, in some cases, facsimile reproductions of the original manuscripts and drawings. The result is a funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by today's most celebrated writers - those who are amused by and happy to share their own early efforts. As Paul Mandelbaum says in his introduction to the book, "We pleasantly drift in and out of the knowledge that these young writers. Are the same people who have come to occupy the places of greatest honor on our bookshelves. Juvenilia reminds us of often forgotten truths: that art takes its nourishment from the common garden of human experience. And that authors are children grown up, still learning, even as they teach us."".
- catalog alternative "1st words".
- catalog contributor b4569621.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Are the same people who have come to occupy the places of greatest honor on our bookshelves. Juvenilia reminds us of often forgotten truths: that art takes its nourishment from the common garden of human experience. And that authors are children grown up, still learning, even as they teach us."".
- catalog description "Childhood and adult work, photographs of the author (then and now), and, in some cases, facsimile reproductions of the original manuscripts and drawings. The result is a funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by today's most celebrated writers - those who are amused by and happy to share their own early efforts. As Paul Mandelbaum says in his introduction to the book, "We pleasantly drift in and out of the knowledge that these young writers.".
- catalog description "Forty-two writers went to their attics and dug up all manner of manuscripts - from the eight-year-old Amy Tan's essay "What the Library Means to Me," to ten-year-old Rita Dove's poem "The Rabbit with the Droopy Ear," to Norman Mailer's action-packed adventure fantasy "The Martian Invasion," also concocted at age ten. Each of the forty-two chapters in First Words includes a brief introduction to the author, the juvenilia with commentary by writer and editor linking the.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-502).".
- catalog description "Most kids write stories. Only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. But before there was Carrie, there was "Jhonathan and the Witchs." And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota Dealer, there was Manuel Citarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? Editor Paul Mandelbaum asked scores of authors if they - or their mothers - had saved anything they had written as children or adolescents.".
- catalog description "Selections from: Isaac Asimov -- Margaret Atwood -- Louis Auchincloss -- Amiri Baraka -- Madison Smartt Bell -- Roy Blount, Jr. -- Vance Bourjaily -- Paul Bowles -- William S. Burroughs -- Fred Chappell -- Carolyn Chute -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Pat Conroy -- Michael Crichton -- Stephen Dixon -- Rita Dove -- Clyde Edgerton -- Stanley Elkin -- George Garrett -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Gail Godwin -- Allan Gurganus -- Mark Helprin -- John Hersey -- Charles Johnson.".
- catalog description "Stephen King -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- W.P. Kinsella -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Jill McCorkle -- Norman Mailer -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Susan Minot -- Gloria Naylor -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Tillie Olsen -- William Styron -- Amy Tan -- John Updike -- Gore Vidal -- Tobias Wolff.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 502 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "First words.".
- catalog identifier "0945575718 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "First words.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,".
- catalog relation "First words.".
- catalog subject "813/.540809283 20".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Children's writings, American.".
- catalog subject "PS508.C5 F57 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Selections from: Isaac Asimov -- Margaret Atwood -- Louis Auchincloss -- Amiri Baraka -- Madison Smartt Bell -- Roy Blount, Jr. -- Vance Bourjaily -- Paul Bowles -- William S. Burroughs -- Fred Chappell -- Carolyn Chute -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Pat Conroy -- Michael Crichton -- Stephen Dixon -- Rita Dove -- Clyde Edgerton -- Stanley Elkin -- George Garrett -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Gail Godwin -- Allan Gurganus -- Mark Helprin -- John Hersey -- Charles Johnson.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Stephen King -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- W.P. Kinsella -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Jill McCorkle -- Norman Mailer -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Susan Minot -- Gloria Naylor -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Tillie Olsen -- William Styron -- Amy Tan -- John Updike -- Gore Vidal -- Tobias Wolff.".
- catalog title "1st words".
- catalog title "First words : earliest writing from from favorite contemporary authors / collected and edited by Paul Mandelbaum.".
- catalog type "text".