Alan Ziegler

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

Eight Stories, Based on a True Life, a memoir, in Spring 2006
The Writing Workshop Note Book, a review or criticism, in Winter 2008
Clips from Our Interview with Alan, an audio interview, in Fall 2009
Gifts of Writing and Teaching, an interview, in Spring 2006

Alan Ziegler was born in 1947 in Brooklyn. Since 2001 he has been chair of the Writing Division in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. He is the author of two books on teaching writing, The Writer’s Workshop, volumes 1 and 2; two collections of poetry, Planning Escape and So Much to Do; a collection of short stories, The Green Grass of Flatbush; and a collection of prose poems, The Swan Song of Vaudeville. Ziegler is at work on a book about writing, forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2007. The excerpt here is from his memoir in progress, Based on a True Life: 99 Stories.