About the Author

Rosalind Brackenburyhas written several novels and collections of poetry, including her latest novel Paris Still Life. She currently lives in Key West, Florida.

Reviews

"The book is as timely as it is compelling since it illuminates the perennial question: Can one learn to become a genius? While Brackenbury is too honest to answer this (unanswerable) inquiry definitively, her attempts are supple, fecund, engrossing. That her voice is a charming mix of casual intelligence, erudition, and striking lyricism makes her musings all the more captivating. With clarity, brevity, insight, and wit, the text describes the challenges and rewards of the writing life as well as offers bracing advice for writers, ranging from 'read avidly' to 'pay attention' to 'set a routine' to 'push to emotional extremes.'"
--Eric G. Wilson, author, My Business Is to Create

"With uncommon grace and wit, Rosalind Brackenbury investigates Virginia Woolf's journey from Victorian daughter to great writer. It takes a writer to truly see another writer's awakening, and Brackenbury's gifts as a novelist and poet inform this telling of 'what happens inside the head and body of a writer'--that irreducible alchemy. A necessary book."--Nancy Schoenberger, author, Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood