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River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (Excelsior Editions) by Nina Shengold and [photographs by] Jennifer May is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An intimate group portrait of contemporary Hudson Valley writers. "When you truly fall in love, whether with a person or a place, you make everything else fit around it. The last eight years of my life have been a love affair with this place." - Gwendolyn Bounds, author of The Little Chapel By the River For centuries, writers have drawn inspiration from the Hudson River and its surroundings. John Burroughs, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edith Wharton all lived and worked in the region immortalized by the Hudson River School of painters. In River of Words, author Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May explore the current crop of Hudson Valley writers, offering intimate portraits of seventy-six contemporary writers who live and work in this magnificent and storied region. Included in this rich collection of emerging and established novelists, memoirists, poets, journalists, and screenwriters are Pulitzer Prize–winners John Ashbery and the late Frank McCourt, bestselling memoirists Julie Powell and Susan Orlean, and distinguished emigres Chinua Achebe and Da Chen. What draws these writers together is not only their devotion to their art bu

Who reads River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (Excelsior Editions)?

Author

Nina Shengold and [photographs by] Jennifer May

Publisher

Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press; State University of New York Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438434254

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography