Dear wizard: the letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White

751 Pages·258.032 MB·English

by  Delbanco, Nicholas, White, Jon Manchip

Dear Wizard

Dear Wizard
The Letters of
Nicholas Delbanco and
Jon Manchip White
Edited by Nicholas Delbanco
University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor
Copyright © by Nicholas Delbanco 2014
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University of Michigan Press
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c Printed on acid- free paper
2017 2016 2015 2014 4 3 2 1
A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the
British Library.
ISBN 978– 0- 472– 11952- 3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978– 0- 472– 12091- 8 (e- book)
Also by Nicholas Delbanco
Fiction
Sherbrookes: One Volume
The Count of Concord
Spring and Fall
The Vagabonds
What Remains
Old Scores
In the Name of Mercy
The Writers’ Trade, & Other Stories
About My Table, & Other Stories
Stillness
Sherbrookes
Possession
Small Rain
Fathering
In the Middle Distance
News
Consider Sappho Burning
Grasse, 3/23/66
The Martlet’s Tale
Nonfiction
The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin & the Nature of First Acts
Lastingness: The Art of Old Age
Anywhere Out of the World: Essays on Travel, Writing, Death
The Countess of Stanlein Restored: A History of the Countess of Stanlein
ex- Paganini Stradivarius Cello of 1707
The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life
Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France
The Beaux Arts Trio: A Portrait
Group Portrait: Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Henry
James, & H.G. Wells
Books Edited
Literature: Craft & Voice (with Alan Cheuse)
The Hopwood Lectures: Sixth Series
The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing
The Sincerest Form: Writing Fiction by Imitation
The Writing Life: the Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series
Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work (with Alan Cheuse)
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures
Writers and Their Craft: Short Stories and Essays on the Narrative (with
Laurence Goldstein)
Stillness and Shadows (two novels by John Gardner)
Also by Jon Manchip White
Fiction
The Bird with Silver Wings, and Other Musical Stories
Rawlins White: Patriot to Heaven
Solo Goya: Goya and the Duchess of Alba at Sanlúcar
Echoes and Shadows
Whistling Past the Churchyard: Strange Tales from a Superstitious
Welshman
The Last Grand Master
Death by Dreaming
The Moscow Papers
Send for Mr. Robinson
The Garden Game
The Game of Troy
Nightclimber
The Rose in the Brandy Glass
Hour of the Rat
The Mercenaries
No Home but Heaven
The Girl from Indiana
Build Us a Dam
Mask of Dust
Poetry
The Mountain Lion
The Rout of San Romano
NonFiction
The Journeying Boy: Scenes from a Welsh Childhood
The Land God Made in Anger: Reflections on a Journey Through South
West Africa
A World Elsewhere: One Man’s Fascination with the American Southwest
What to Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide (with Robert
Conquest)
Marshal of France: Life and Times of Maurice, Comte de Saxe, 1696- 1750
Diego Velázquez: Painter and Courtier
Cortés and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire
Ancient Egypt
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
Everyday Life of the North American Indians
Anthropology (Teach Yourself book series)
Books Edited and Introduced
Life in Ancient Egypt, by Adolf Erman
The Tomb of Tutankhamun, by Howard Carter
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, by E.W. Lane
Egypt and the Holy Land: Historic Photographs, by Francis Frith (with
Julia van Haaften)
A History of the Ancient Egyptians, by James Henry Breasted
Introduction to Old Calabria, by Norman Douglas
Introduction to Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, by Robert Louis
Stevenson
Contents
Introduction
– 1 –
Section I: 1978 to 1989
– 7 –
Section II: 1990 to 1999
– 115 –
Section III: 2000 to 2013
– 407 –
Illustrations following page
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