WORDS ON THE LINE by Philip Vassallo

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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Phil's Lists, Part 8: Writers

A list of writers to read would be endless, so I limit this one to respond to questions I've received over the years about writers in specific disciplines and of certain genres. Even though most of the writers listed cross many categories, I have placed them in the area where they've attained the greatest notoriety. For more worthwhile books, check my library.  

Biography
Joseph Blotner
Ernle Bradford
John Lahr

Criticism
Harold Bloom
Wayne C. Booth
Lajos Egri
James Wood

Culture
James Baldwin
Joan Didion
Robert Hughes
William Langewiesche
George Orwell
Thomas Sowell

Drama
Edward Albee
David Mamet
Arthur Miller
Eugene O'Neill
Harold Pinter
Yasmina Reza
Sam Shepard
Tennessee Williams

Education
John Comenius
Lawrence Cremin
John Dewey
E. D. Hirsch
Myron Lieberman
Quintilian

Fiction
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Nikos Kazantzakis
John Steinbeck
Kurt Vonnegut

History
Winston Churchill
Will Durant
Shelby Foote
Stanley Karnow

Language
Roland Barthes
S. I. Hayakawa
Mario Pei

Poetry
Billy Collins
Emily Dickinson
Stephen Dunn
Robert Frost
W. S. Merwin
Robert Penn Warren

Society
Albert Einstein
Viktor E. Frankl
Mahatma Gandhi
Edward T. Hall
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Theology
Karl Barth
Martin Buber
Norman L. Geisler
Wayne Grudem
C. S. Lewis
Paul Tillich
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Philip Vassallo is a communication and education consultant. Phil is the author of three instructional books (How to Write Fast Under Pressure, The Art of Email Writing, and The Art of On-the-Job Writing), two play collections (Questions Asked of Dying Dreams and A Case-by-Case Basis: Four Short Plays), two essay collections (The Inwardness of the Outward Gaze: Learning and Teaching Through Philosophy and Person to Person: Essays from Two Centuries), and two poetry collections (Like the Day I Was Born: 40 Poems, 40 Places, 40 Days) and American Haiku). Twenty-seven of his plays are licensed through Concord Theatricals, Heuer Publishing, Brooklyn Publishing, Green Room Press, Heartland Plays, and Next Stage Press. Many of his videotaped, credit-bearing courses are available through Kaplan Education. He holds a doctorate in Educational Theory and Philosophy from Rutgers University and received a New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant for playwriting. Phil can be reached at Phil@PhilVassallo.com.
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