Barnaby Conrad (1922–2013)
Autore di Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life
Sull'Autore
Barnaby Conrad is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara, Writers' Conference.
Fonte dell'immagine: Sélection du Reader's Digest
Opere di Barnaby Conrad
101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written: An Erotic Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers (Great Books for Writers) (2011) 8 copie
101 Best Beginnings Ever Written: A Romp Through Literary Openings for Writers and Readers (2009) 6 copie
How To Fight A Bull 2 copie
The innocent villa, a novel 1 copia
Dangerfield 1 copia
Opere correlate
Selezione del Libro contiene: La signora e il giardiniere - Matador - Digby - Prigionieri del cielo (1955) 2 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 6, February 1977 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Conrad, Barnaby, Jr.
- Data di nascita
- 1922-03-27
- Data di morte
- 2013-02-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Carpinteria, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Carpinteria, California, USA
Mexico
Lima, Peru
Spain - Istruzione
- University of North Carolina
Cate School, Carpinteria, California, USA
Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, USA
University of Mexico
Yale University - Attività lavorative
- Night club Owner
Painter
Writer - Relazioni
- Conrad, Barnaby, III (son)
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 36
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 747
- Popolarità
- #34,028
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 73
- Lingue
- 2
The book uses a lot of examples, with some quotes, and also advice from a lot of different writers, either classic ones such as Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald etc, or those who were very popular at the time of publication. Some, who were apparently best sellers, I've never heard of, but a lot are familiar names even if I've never read their books, e.g. Sidney Sheldon. Quite a few extracts come from the various addresses given at the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference which I think was held annually and is still running.
The main 'bias' is that the book is overwhelmingly American, unsurprisingly in view of its genesis at the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, and references to 'this country' etc are obviously the USA, although authors like Chekhov are discussed. There's some good advice here for beginner writers; for me, it's reinforcement although I found the examples interesting and I wish I'd read this years ago when I was given bad advice about writer's block, because the advice in this book is what I discovered the hard way - don't wait for a great idea, instead just write any old thing and eventually the creative spirit will return.… (altro)