Readings

Didion, Joan. "Why I Write" from Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations. Edited by Ellen G. Friedman. Princeton: Ontario Review Press, 1984, p. 5-10. ISBN: 086538035X. (note: This essay is also frequently anthologized.)

Buy at Amazon Updike, John. "Why Write?" from Picked-up Pieces. New York: Knopf, 1975. p. 29-39. ISBN: 9780394498492.

Menand, Louis. "Bad Comma." The New Yorker, June 2004, 102-104.

Buy at Amazon Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1983, pp. 231-243. ISBN: 9780151445257.

Buy at Amazon Fraser, Kennedy. "The Poet of Everyday Life." In Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives. New York, NY: Knopf, 1996, pp. 191-201. ISBN: 9780394585390.

Pollack, Barbara. "Stitches in Time." House & Garden, November 2002, 98-103.

Buy at Amazon Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Artist of the Beautiful." In Hawthorne's Short Stories. Edited by Newton Arvin. New York, NY: Vintage, 1955, pp. 331-354. ISBN: 9780394700151.

Buy at Amazon Jung, Carl. The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press/Bollingen Series, 1966, pp. 100-05. ISBN: 9780691097732.

Buy at Amazon Sacks, Oliver. Chapters 7, and 8 in Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. New York: Knopf, 2001, pp. 67-90. ISBN: 9780375404481.

McAuliffe, Kathleen. "The Undiscovered World of Thomas Edison." The Atlantic Monthly, December 1995, 80-93.

Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Televisionary." The New Yorker, May 2002, 112-116. (This article is available at:gladwell.com)

Buy at Amazon Rollo, May. Preface, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, and sections 1-5. In The Courage to Create. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1982, pp. 7-8, 11-73, 124-140. ISBN: 9780553228953.

Buy at Amazon Hirschberg, Jerry. "Unleashing Creativity," Introduction, "Stepping Back from the Canvas," Chapters 5, and "Synthesis." Chapter 10 in The Creative Priority. NY: Harper Collins, 1999, pp. 1-25, 87-98, 191-212. ISBN: 9780887309601.

Buy at Amazon Koestler, Arthur. "The Three Domains of Creativity." In The Concept of Creativity in Science and Art. Edited by D. Dutton, and M. Krausz. Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston, 1981, pp. 1-17. ISBN: 9789024724185.

Buy at Amazon Boden, Margaret. The Creative Mind. 2nd ed. London, UK: Routledge, 2003, pp. 1-39, notes 323-24. ISBN: 9780415314534.