Writer on her Work / [electronic resource] / edited and with an introduction by Janet Sternberg.. — New York : : W.W. Norton,, 1980.. — 265 p. ; 21 cm.
The writer herself: an introduction / Janet Sternburg -- Still just writing / Anne Tyler -- Why I write / Joan Didion -- The parable of the cave or: In praise of watercolors / Mary Gordon -- De memoria / Nancy Milford -- My grandmother who painted / Honor Moore -- Creating oneself from scratch / Michele Murray -- On being female, black, and free / Margaret Walker -- Thoughts on writing: a diary / Susan Griffin -- One child of one's own: a meaningful digression within the work(s) / Alice Walker -- The middle period / Ingrid Bengis -- What it is I think I'm doing anyhow / Toni Cade Bambara -- Blood and guts: the tricky problem of being a woman writer in the late twentieth century / Erica Jong -- The coming book / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Opening nights: the opening days / Janet Burroway -- The education of a poet / Muriel Rukeyser -- Becoming a writer / Gail Godwin.