On Writers & Writing Diary Unknown - 2002

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Description: Introduced more than 10 years ago, this year's version of the popular desk diary offers 53 original essays about the lives and careers of writers throughout history. The essays are illustrated with a photo of each writer or an image associated with their work. In addition to the 53 artists featured in the desk diary, more than 400 additional writers are listed by birth date. Notes: The authors of On Writers and Writing are both biographers. Helen Sheehy is the author of Margo: The Life and Theater of Margo Jones, (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989) and Eva Le Gallienne (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). A resident of Connecticut, Sheehy has written a theater textbook, a number of articles and essays, and has taught theater for more than 25 years. Leslie Stainton, who lives in Michigan, is the author of Lorca: A Dream of Life (Bloomsbury, 1998; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). Her articles and essays have appeared in newspapers and periodicals including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and American Theater magazine. Writers Featured in the 2004 Edition of On Writers and Writing Desk Diary Abbott, George Alfreri, Vittorio Birdwatching Bradbury, Malcolm Buchner, Georg Bunyan, John Burgess, Anthony Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burns, Robert Camilo, Jose Cela Cary, Alice Childress, Alice Coatsworth, Elizabeth Concord, Massachusetts Corneille, Pierre de la Fontaine, Jean de Maupassant, Guy Defoe, Daniel Dryden, John Dunnett, Dorothy Durrenmatt, Friedrich Edwards, Jonathan Frazer, Sir James Gardner, Earle Stanley Gordon, Ruth Haiku Highsmith, Patricia Horace Howells, William Dean Hughes, Langston Huxley, Aldous Jarrell, Randall Jefferson, Thomas L'Amour, Louis Lindgren, AstridMayakovsky, Vladimir Melodrama Mencken, H.L. Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing Puig, Manuel Quasimodo, Salvatore Robinson, Edward Arlington Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Ruskin, John Sebald, W.G. Sewell, Anna Sheridan, Richard Stegner, Wallace Stevenson, Robert Louis Sully-Prudhomme, Rene Tirso de Molina Washington, Booker T. Wiggin, Kate