Living with a Writer

Preface; D.Salwak Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART ONE: THE PLEASURES The Spouse in the House; M.Bradbury Living with Writers; A.Thwaite Lady Naipaul; P.Theroux Lady of Letters: Living with Sylvia Jukes Morris; E.Morris Yesterday's News; M.Holroyd The Open Door; M.Drabble Harbour and Voyage: The Marriage of Ann and Bill Golding, 1939-1993; J.Carver C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson at Home; J.Halperin Hong Kong Time; G.H.Colt Writers as Progenitors and Offspring; J.Updike My Grandmother's Only Son; D.Updike I am Two Fools - Or Home Alone; C.Aird Margaret; B.Aldiss Living with Julian; K.Symons When Writing Entered My Mind; F.H.Bachelder Pen and Ink: The Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; J.Berg PART TWO: THE PROBLEMS Forget She (or He) is a Writer, and All May Be Well; J.Bayley Getting Along with Myself; N.Gordimer The Pantomime Horse; A.Craig Can This Collaboration Be Saved?; A.Bernays & J.Kaplan Maugham's Marriage; J.Meyers Being Two of Us; M.A. Caws The Mystery of the Vanishing Wife; L.Young Room for One; B.Fussell Peter Levi: A Corresponding Friendship; R.Rollison Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius; H.Parker A Perilous Art; D.Salwak Related Works Index
About the Author: CATHERINE AIRD Author of detective fiction BRIAN W. ALDISS Novelist/ science-fiction author FRANCES H. BACHELDER Poet and novelist JOHN BAYLEY Husband of the late Iris Murdoch; Warton Professor of English Emeritus, Oxford University and novelist JAMES J. BERG Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, USA ANNE BERNAYS Teaches at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; novelist MALCOLM BRADBURY Formerly Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; novelist JUDY CARVER Daughter of William Golding; novelist MARY ANN CAWS Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School of the City University of New York, USA; writer and biographer GEORGE HOWE COLT Novelist and former journalist AMANDA CRAIG Novelist and Journalist for The Sunday Times, The Times, The New Statesman, and The Independent MARGARET DRABBLE Novelist BETTY FUSSELL Author of biographies and memoirs NADINE GORDIMER Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; Novelist and Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice President of PEN International and a Goodwill Ambassaor of UNDP JOHN HALPERIN Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographer MICHAEL HOLROYD Novelist JUSTIN KAPLAN Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1966; novelist and biographer JEFFREY MEYERS Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; biographer EDMUND MORRIS Winner of Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980, Member of the Modern Library Editorial Board and writer in residence at the University of Chicago; biographer HERSHEL PARKER Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville; biographer ROB ROLLISON Retired from the University of South Australia; currently researching and writing on modern poets and their politics KATHLEEN SYMONS Wife of Julian Symons, writer ANN THWAITE Author of children's books and biographies; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature PAUL THEROUX Novelist DAVID UPDIKE Associate Professor of English, Roxbury Community College, Boston, USA; author of children's books and novelist JOHN UPDIKE Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; novelist LAUREL YOUNG Currently completing PhD in Literature, Vanderbilt University