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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most

by Ronald B. Shwartz (Editor)

Other authors: Diane Ackerman (Contributor), Robert Alter (Contributor), Ken Auletta (Contributor), Nicholson Baker (Contributor), Russell Banks (Contributor)109 more, Dave Barry (Contributor), John Barth (Contributor), Jacques Barzun (Contributor), Ann Beattie (Contributor), Louis Begley (Contributor), Madison Smartt Bell (Contributor), Anne Bernays (Contributor), Sven Birkerts (Contributor), Amy Bloom (Contributor), Roy Blount, Jr. (Contributor), Robert Bly (Contributor), Benjamin C. Bradlee (Contributor), Rita Mae Brown (Contributor), Art Buchwald (Contributor), Christopher Buckley (Contributor), Ethan Canin (Contributor), Philip Caputo (Contributor), John Casey (Contributor), Robert Coles (Contributor), Robert Coover (Contributor), Robert Creeley (Contributor), Guy Davenport (Contributor), Rita Dove (Contributor), Gretel Ehrlich (Contributor), Joseph Epstein (Contributor), Anne Fadiman (Contributor), Clifton Fadiman (Contributor), Stanley Fish (Contributor), Penelope Fitzgerald (Contributor), Bruce Jay Friedman (Contributor), William Gass (Contributor), Sir Martin Gilbert (Contributor), Gail Godwin (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Doris Grumbach (Contributor), Pete Hamill (Contributor), Jonathan Harr (Contributor), John Hawkes (Contributor), Anthony Hecht (Contributor), Edward Hoagland (Contributor), John Irving (Contributor), Justin Kaplan (Contributor), Susanna Kaysen (Contributor), Alfred Kazin (Contributor), Tracy Kidder (Contributor), W.P. Kinsella (Contributor), Caroline Knapp (Contributor), Maxine Kumin (Contributor), Anthony Lane (Contributor), David Leavitt (Contributor), Elmore Leonard (Contributor), Doris Lessing (Contributor), David Lodge (Contributor), Phillip Lopate (Contributor), Norman Mailer (Contributor), William Manchester (Contributor), James McBride (Contributor), Frank McCourt (Contributor), Elizabeth McCracken (Contributor), Joseph McElroy (Contributor), Thomas McGuane (Contributor), Ved Mehta (Contributor), W.S. Merwin (Contributor), Arthur Miller (Contributor), Sue Miller (Contributor), Peggy Noonan (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), P.J. O’Rourke (Contributor), Sharon Olds (Contributor), Michael Ondaatje (Contributor), Amos Oz (Contributor), Cynthia Ozick (Contributor), Grace Paley (Contributor), Jay Parini (Contributor), Robert B. Parker (Contributor), Noel Perrin (Contributor), Marge Piercy (Contributor), Robert M. Pirsig (Contributor), Richard A. Posner (Contributor), Padgett Powell (Contributor), Reynolds Price (Contributor), James Purdy (Contributor), Mario Puzo (Contributor), Anna Quindlen (Contributor), Richard Rhodes (Contributor), Mordecai Richler (Contributor), Lillian Ross (Contributor), Judith Rossner (Contributor), Witold Rybczynski (Contributor), Orville Schell (Contributor), Joanna Scott (Contributor), Carol Shields (Contributor), Alan Sillitoe (Contributor), Neil Simon (Contributor), Mona Simpson (Contributor), W.D. Snodgrass (Contributor), Oliver Stone (Contributor), Mark Strand (Contributor), William Styron (Contributor), Gay Talese (Contributor), D.M. Thomas (Contributor), John Updike (Contributor), Kurt Vonnegut (Contributor), Wendy Wasserstein (Contributor), Paul West (Contributor), Richard Wilbur (Contributor), Geoffrey Wolff (Contributor), Tobias Wolff (Contributor), Herman Wouk (Contributor)

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"For this ultimate book lover's guide, more than one hundred distinguished writers share their personal thoughts in response to the question: What books have left the greatest impression on you, and why? The result is not a contrived list of Western civilization's "Great Books," but heartfelt commentary on works - classic and otherwise - that these lifelong readers most admire."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)

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