Letters to a Young Writer

Robert Olen Butler is the author of eleven novels and five short story collections, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize. Among his numerous other accolades are two National Magazine Awards in Fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His book on the creative process for fiction writers, From Where You Dream, is widely used in classrooms. Butler teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Photograph by Joshua Butler.