From My Bookshelf, Some Favorite Titles:

• Reading, Writing & the Creative Process

Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne

Jane Hirschfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

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• Resource Books and Journals, Literary Nonfiction

The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction (3rd ed. by Robert L. Root, Jr. and Michael Steinberg)

The Art of the Personal Essay (edited by Phillip Lopate)

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work From 1970 to the Present, edited by Williford and Martone

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• Contemporary Literary Nonfiction (categories)

Illness/Accident/Grief
Family-Centered Text
Experimental Forms
Place/Nature/Science
Childhood/Coming Of Age
New Journalism/History/Event
Humor
Personal And Lyric Essays
Journals/Letters
Occupational Memoirs/Essays

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