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From three-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, a vibrant portrait of her writing and publishing life. 'You don't have to be a hungry writer or an aspiring editor to appreciate Publishing ' New York Times Book Review 'This is delightful reading' Boston Globe Publishing is a personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul—for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1958, Godwin met with Knopf scouts who came to campus every spring in search of new talent. Though her five pages of Windy Peaks were turned down and the novel never completed, she would go on to publish two story collections and fourteen novels, three of which were National Book Award finalists, five of which were New York Times bestsellers. Publishing reflects on the influence of her mother's writing hopes and accomplishments, and recalls Godwin's experiences with teachers Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Coover at the Iowa Writers' Workshop; with John Hawkins, her literary agent for five decades; with Joh
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- Author
- Godwin, Gail
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781620408261
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 3.38 / 5 (171 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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