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The Lives Behind the Books — /ssue writers’ special edition
· Writers’ Special Edition · by JW / Holloway

The Lives Behind the Books

Their beginnings. Their contradictions. Their enduring books.

Meet sixteen writers across a thousand years through their lives, their routes into writing, and the books they left behind. Black-and-white portraits, biographies, reading guides, and reflections on craft.

Read aloud uses your device’s English voice.

44 pages16 writersLiterature & history
Inside the edition

Before the book, there was a life.

Explore the people behind the work—from Murasaki Shikibu to Toni Morrison.