The Open Door: When Writers First Learned to Read

By Steven Gilbar

Book Overview

Twenty-nine writers, including Dickens, Kipling, Mencken, Welty, and Dillard, recount their first memories of reading.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879238097
• ISBN13: 9780879238094
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

How did you learn to read?

I am amazed that I am the first to submit a review on this fascinating little book.It was first published in 1989.The preface is by Barbara Bush who was the Honorary Chairperson of The Year of the Young Reader,a national campaign initiated by the Library of Congress to encourage young people to love books and reading. Here we read about 29 of history and literatures' most interesting and celebrated writers recalling their...