Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to Trickster Makes This World, he is the author of The Gift, a defence of the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-orientated society. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.
This book is a revelation
* * The Times * *
A modern classic . . . which celebrates the power of disruptive
imagination
* * Guardian * *
A glorious grab-bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum
pudding rich in treasures
* * Los Angeles Times * *
His big ideas are seriously good ones
* * Guardian * *
An act of pure pleasure from first to last
*Michael Chabon*
Hyde is one of our true superstars of non-fiction . . . Both
brilliant (intellectually, literarily) and wise (psychologically,
spiritually, you-name-itally)
*David Foster Wallace*
Lewis Hyde's second masterpiece
*Margaret Atwood*
A masterpiece . . . The thrilling thing about reading non-fiction
such as Hyde's is not just that it gives you new thoughts: it also
changes the way you think
* * Scotland on Sunday * *
Brilliant...By the time he is done he has folded language, culture,
and the very habit of being human into his ken
* * The New Yorker * *
Hyde is far more than an astute cultural critic; he's an original
and important thinker. Pass it on
*Geoff Dyer*
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