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Letters to a teacher / Sam Pickering.
LIBRA - Special LB1775 .P56 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pickering, Sam, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teachers--Anecdotes.
- Teachers.
- Teaching--Anecdotes.
- Teaching.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 242 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- An English teacher at a boys' school in Tennessee, Pickering was the inspiration for the film "Dead Poets Society." In ten eloquent essays addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always elucidating anecdotes from his more than 40 years in the classroom.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0871136996
- OCLC:
- 56192384
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