John Updike,Margaret Drabble,Nadine Gordimer,Edmund Morrisand Ann Thwaite are among the twenty-eight distuinguishedcontributors of original essays to this landm... » 

John Updike,Margaret Drabble,Nadine Gordimer,Edmund Morrisand Ann Thwaite are among the twenty-eight distuinguishedcontributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the pleasures and problems of living with a writer. Husbands and wives,other relatives and friends-all have a say about this oftentimes humorous,many timrs sadding,but always fascinating subject. «