Must write : Edna Staebler's diaries / Christi Verduyn, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verduyn, Christl, Author.

Contributor:

Verduyn, Christi.

Series:

Life Writing

Life Writing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Staebler, Edna, 1906-2006.

Staebler, Edna.

Authors, Canadian--20th century--Diaries.

Authors, Canadian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued to write for over eighty years. Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries draws from these diaries selections that map Staebler's construction of herself as a writer and documents her frustrations and struggles, along with her desire to express herself, in writing. She felt she

Contents:

CONTENTS; 1 1920's Words to Express; 2 1930's Longing to Make Something; 3 1940's Must Write; 4 "Duelists of the Deep" 1948; 5 "How to Live without Wars and Wedding Rings" 1950; 6 1950's Writing; 7 1960's Must Work; 8 1970's Something to Write About; 9 "Cape Breton Harbour" (excerpt) 1972; 10 "The Great Cookie War" 1987; 11 1980's The Business of Publishing; 12 1990's Must Do; 13 2000 Still Interested and Interesting

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610280889

9781554588114

1554588111

9781280280887

1280280883

9780889209145

0889209146

9781423725114

1423725115

OCLC:

753479608