![]() “‘Writing Fiction’ was the first work on craft I read as a graduate student at Columbia College in Chicago,” he says. Thomas Balazs, associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, calls “Writing Fiction” the “Bible on fiction writing.” ![]() The ninth edition of “Writing Fiction” was released last month, and each edition outsells the previous one. When introducing Burroway before a reading several years ago at Florida State University, where Burroway taught for 30 years, the writer Mark Winegardner calculated that the text had been assigned to enough students to fill the university’s Doak Campbell Stadium (capacity 82,300) three times. ![]() She’s the author of “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft,” one of the most widely used textbooks on the writing of fiction. Janet Burroway is a legend in literary circles, but not necessarily the way she has wanted. ![]()
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