A year in the life of Tigris School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and of fortyish divorcee and board member Sally Cooper tests the school's unorthodox approach, the teachers' practices, and Sally's friendship with the new head mistress

The School Book: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Bernays, Anne

United States

Harpercollins

Infused with intelligence and charm, Back Then is an elegant reflection on transformative years in the lives of two young people and New York City. Marked by their youthful passion, this double memoir marries the authors' distinct literary styles with a riveting narrative that captures the density and texture of private, social, and working life in the 1950s.
Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books. They both sought self-knowledge and realization through years of psychoanalysis. They brushed shoulders with celebrities like William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Marlene Dietrich, and Anatole Broyard.
Before Bernays and Kaplan met and married, each had enjoyed the sexual and social freedom that, along with the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, was among the distinguishing marks of the 1950s. In many other respects, the story they tell could almost as well be about an earlier era.
This vibrant, balanced memoir offers an indelible portrait of postwar New York -- exhilarating, hospitable, and affordable. A striking collaboration by two prominent figures in American letters, Back Then surprises and delights as Bernays and Kaplan recall their youthful pursuits, the merging of their lives, and the city's underlying influence on them.

Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York

Biographies & Memoirs

KAPLAN, Justin

Arts & Literature

William Morrow

Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan - both native New Yorkers - came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Written in two separate voices, Back Then is thecandid, anecdotal account of these two children of privilege - one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side - pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books. Infused with intelligence and charm, Back Then is an elegant reflection on the transformative years in the lives of two young people and New York City. Marked by their youthful passions, this double memoir marries the authors' distinct literary styles with a riveting narrative that captures the density and texture of private, social, and working life in the 1950s.

Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York

William Morrow Paperbacks

What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer more than seventy-five exercises for both beginners and more experienced writers. These exercises are designed to develop and refine two basic skills: writing like a writer and, just as important, thinking like a writer. They deal with such topics as discovering where to start and end a story; learning when to use dialogue and when to use indirect discourse; transforming real events into fiction; and finding language that both sings and communicates precisely. What If? will be an essential addition to every writer's library, a welcome and much-used companion, a book that gracefully borrows a whisper from the muse.

What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

Reference

Pamela Painter

Words, Language & Grammar

The story of Jacob Barker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University and the campus Don Juan. With merciless pen and eye, Anne Bernays chronicles the conquests of the campus romeo from his undergraduate affairs to the terrifying moment he is called to account by the newly appointed Dean of Women's Affairs, who happens to be a former lover.

Professor Romeo (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literary

Penguin??Books

Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.

Pamela, Pamela

History & Criticism

Pearson

"In our house on Seventy-third Street, we had a Degas dancer in the dining room, Rembrandt, Fragonard drawings along th e staircase, a Calder mobile and a fantastic Braque over the living room fireplace. In this built-in museum I was surrounded by exquisite taste which had made the pages of Life, Town and country, and The Saturday Evening Post.

Growing Up Rich

Little,Brown

Editor Alicia Baer, agonizing over an attractive job offer which would require her to live apart from her husband and teenaged daughter, discovers in her address book five new names, unknown to her but written in her handwriting

The Address Book

Little,Brown & Co

Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.

What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers (2nd Edition)

Business & Money

Painter, Pamela

Economics

Longman

Ballantine Books

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The School Book: A Novel

Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York

Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York

What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

Professor Romeo (Contemporary American Fiction)

What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

Growing Up Rich

The Address Book

What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers (2nd Edition)

Growing Up Rich