Letters to a Young Writer by Robert Olen Butler

by Robert Olen Butler

Thinking about writing and worried about failing? Then read what Robert Olen Butler has to say to Lauren Birden, who is currently a graduate poetry writing student at Columbia University’s School of the Arts:

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Robert Olen Butler is the author of numerous works of fiction, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize; Weegee Stories (Narrative Library, 2010); A Small Hotel; The Hot Country; The Star of Istanbul (Mysterious Press, 2013); and the story collection Tabloid Dreams, which has been reissued (Grove, 2013). Among his numerous 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.

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