Essays by Houston A. Baker, Jr., John Barth, Fred Chappell, John Eisenhower, George Garrett, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Nancy Hale, Alfred Kazin, Mark Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Max Steele, and Sylvia Wilkinson. "Will fascinate avid readers and teachers".--Chattanooga News-Free Press. A Writer's Digest Book Club selection.
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Louis D. Rubin, Jr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1923. He graduated from the University of Richmond (B.A.) and the Johns Hopkins University (M.A., Ph.D.). He has been executive secretary of the American Studies Association and has taught at Johns Hopkins and Hollins College, and is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been awarded Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships, and two of his short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories collections. He is editor of the Southern Literary Studies Series of the Louisiana State University Press. He has published two novels, The Golden Weather and Surfaces of a Diamond, as well as books on Southern and American literature and history, including Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of His Youth, No Place on Earth, The Faraway Country, The Curious Death of the Novel, The Wary Fugitives, The Writer in the South, The Teller in the Tale, George W. Cable, William Elliott Shoots a Bear, Virginia: A History, A Gallery of Southerners, and The Even-Tempered Angler. He has been president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.
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An Apple for My Teacher is a book that helps students and teachers alike realize their importance to one another. The tweleve stories included show what makes a good teacher and how influential a figure a teacher is/can be in a student's life. I enjoyed reading about the various ways and the different types of teachers that influenced these writers. Surprisingly not all of the writers chose teachers that were a 'traditional' teacher nor did they all choose teachers who specifically taught english. The only problem with the book is that it seems dated because most of the authors went to school many years ago. It would be good to have a 'newer' version of this book. Even though the time frame is a bit old the feelings and experiences presented in this book are still relevant today.
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As I had to give a talk about the influence of good teachers, I read
this book in search of good quotations and anecdotes by writers about teachers who had influenced their careers. It was not the best source for that, although I still like it that when Kim Novak said she had been doing a lot of reading and was asked what, for instance, she'd been reading? Her response: Mostly poetry and prose. And John Barth chose his own wife as teacher. I thought the book useful in general but not for a speaker looking for pithy remarks.
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In a small town that's been there for ages, some people look out and some look in. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Dugan, Mama George, Miss Jennie, Miss Willie, Joe Brown, Miss Rosenberg, Miss Strandberg, Penn State, Bird Stair, New York, World War, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Miss Bishop, Elizabeth Spencer, Mark Van Doren, Miss Knapp, Reynolds Price, Siddie Joe Johnson, Sylvia Wilkinson, Johns Hopkins, Mark Smith, Great Hall, John Barth, Miss Floyd, North Carolina New!
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In a small town that's been there for ages, some people look out and some look in. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Dugan, Mama George, Miss Jennie, Miss Willie, Joe Brown, Miss Rosenberg, Miss Strandberg, Penn State, Bird Stair, New York, World War, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Miss Bishop, Elizabeth Spencer, Mark Van Doren, Miss Knapp, Reynolds Price, Siddie Joe Johnson, Sylvia Wilkinson, Johns Hopkins, Mark Smith, Great Hall, John Barth, Miss Floyd, North Carolina New!
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- The Prodigal Women by Nancy Hale in Back Matter
- The Golden Weather (Voices of the South) by Louis Decimus, Jr. Rubin in Back Matter
- It Is Time, Lord (Voices of the South) by Fred Chappell in Back Matter
- You Must Know Everything by Isaac Babel on page 32
- The Inmost Leaf: Essays on American and European Writers by Alfred Kazin in Back Matter
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