Robert D. Richardson is the author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, which won the 2007 Bancroft Prize, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, which won both the Francis Parkman Prize and the Melcher Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, which also won the Melcher Book Award.
"In this brief, elegant, and quietly passionate volume Robert
Richardson has produced an invaluable handbook for the writer and
aspirant writer, a copy of which should be presented to every
student in every writing class around the world, for it is a
serious course he is embarked on, in which he must learn to write
not in the hope of expressing his puny self but to be, among other
things, a guardian of language."-John Banville, The New York Review
of Books
"Richardson is Emerson's foremost biographer, and he has culled the
great man's work for the kind of specific, timeless instruction
that makes the difference between good writing and great writing.
This is the book on writing that Emerson would have used to teach
his lucky students. The chapter on sentences sparkles, and it alone
is worth the purchase. Everyone who wants to learn about writing
should read this book."--Susan Cheever, author, American Bloomsbury
and Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
"Robert Richardson has done exquisite service both to Emerson and
to the many readers this book will surely attract and leave with a
deeper understanding of Emerson the writer. How many of us have
read through all the journals to gather his thoughts, often
private, uncontained in the essays, about the actual work of
turning language into the fertile body of expressed thought? As in
his biography of Emerson, The Mind on Fire, we are recipients again
of Richardson's scholarship, his unflagging, inquisitive, humanist
unveiling of the great Emerson's thoughts."--Mary Oliver
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