On Writers & Writing Desk Diary features 53 original essays that discuss the "how" and "why" of writing from the perspective of a broad range of authors. In this year's edition, authors Helen Sheehy and Leslie Stainton include a host of notables, ranging from the intrepid traveler of Jacksonian America Harriet Nartineau, playwright Jean Anouilh, muckraker Jessica Mitford, poet Edmund Spenser, and novelist Iris Murdoch. Share your week with August Strindberg, Isadora Duncan, Raymond Chandler, and Charles Schulz. Birthdates of nearly 400 writers are noted.
