First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
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    [synopsis] => 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, 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.
	First Words is an inspiration to budding writers and enthusiastic teachers, and a revelation for readers everywhere.
	 This revised and condensed edition includes the following writers:
	 Margaret Atwood
	 Roy Blount, Jr.
	 Paul Bowles
	 Pat Conroy
	 Michael Crichton
	 Rita Dove
	 Clyde Edgerton
	 Gail Godwin
	 Allan Gurganus
	 Charles Johnson
	 Stephen King
	 Maxine Hong Kingston
	 Ursula LeGuin
	 Madeleine L'Engle
	 Jill McCorkle
	 Norman Mailer
	 Joyce Carol Oates
	 William Styron
	 Amy Tan
	 John Updike
	 Gore Vidal
	 Tobias Wolff
	
	 Paul Mandelbaum grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A freelance journalist and writer, he has taught magazine journalism at the University of Iowa and Drake University, was an editor at Baltimore magazine and Managing Editor for Story magazine. He has published fiction in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner, DoubleTake, Black Warrior Review, and Poets and Writers. He lives in Culver City, California.  Editor Paul Mandelbaum persuaded twenty-two authors to share their childhood writings and their treasured photographs. What he's collected is a fascinating revelation of young creative minds at work, wrestling with early versions of ideas that were to take hold of their writings in later years.
	 Of course, the young Michael Crichton would describe what goes on in a dissection lab. Of course, Madeleine L'Engle would wonder about space and the meaning of eternity. Margaret Atwood would questions conventional female behavior, arguing for the right to smoke cigars. And Stephen King would write a macabre story of slicing and piercing at age nine.
	First Words is an inspiration to budding writers, encouraging teachers, and just plain readers.
	 FIRST WORDS features the early works of: Margaret Atwood, Roy Blunt, Jr., Paul Bowles, Pat Conroy, Michael Crichton, Rita Dove, Clyde Edgerton, Gail Godwin, Allan Gurganus, Charles Johnson, Stephen King, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L'Engle, Jill McCorkle, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, Amy Tan, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Tobias Wolf
	  Introduction (ix)
	 Margaret Atwood (3)
	 Roy Blunt, Jr. (17)
	 Paul Bowles (27)
	 Pat Conroy (43)
	 Michael Crichton (47)
	 Rita Dove (67)
	 Clyde Edgerton (75)
	 Gail Godwin (83)
	 Allan Gurganus (99)
	 Charles Johnson (109)
	 Stephen King (117)
	 Maxine Hong Kingston (123)
	 Ursula K. Le Guin (133)
	 Madeleine L'Engle (137)
	 Jill McCorkle (145)
	 Norman Mailer (153)
	 Joyce Carol Oates (159)
	 William Styron (175)
	 Amy Tan (183)
	 John Updike (187)
	 Gore Vidal (215)
	 Tobias Wolf (227)
	 Appendix (231)
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