Here is the index to Michael Kimball’s The One-Hour MFA, a collection of essays about how to write fiction. He makes tons of references to great writers, past and present. From Nick Antosca to Virginia Woolf, do you see anyone you love in the list below?
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A
Antosca, Nick 60
Aristotle 20, 21, 23, 43
B
Banville, John 27
Bender, Aimee 15
Blau, Jessica Anya 47
Bradbury, Ray 43
Broadkey, Harold 46
Burroway, Janet 23, 31, 35
Butler, Blake 12
C
Carson, Rachel 9
Carver, Raymond 7, 27, 37, 55
Cioran, Emil 70
Connell, Evan 70
Crews, Harry 9
D
Delillo, Don 12
Devine, Andy 19, 28, 31, 36, 52
Dillard, Annie 59
Doctorow, E.L., 10, 61
E
Eliot, T.S. 63
Elkin, Stanley 45
F
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 59
Freud, Esther 69
Freytag, Gustav 20-21, 22
G
Gardner, John 29, 37, 45-46
Gilchrist, Ellen 67
H
Hemingway, Ernest 15-16, 24, 37
Hoban, Russell 4
Holland, Noy 70
Howard, Joanna 29
I
Irving, John 67
K
Kelly, R. 40
King, Stephen 28
Krusoe, Jim 51-52
L
Landis, Dylan 51-52
Leonard, Elmore 4, 43, 51
Ligon, Samuel 30
Lipsyte, Sam 6-7, 19, 41, 45, 64, 67, 69-70
Lutz, Gary 28, 33
M
Mantel, Hilary 52-53
Markson, David 3-4
McInerney, Jay 39
Moore, Lorrie 60
Melville, Herman 3
Murakami, Haruki 58, 60
O
O’Brien, Edna 19
Oates, Joyce Carol 58, 59-60
Offutt, Chris 5
P
Plath, Sylvia 4
Porter, Andrew 45, 64, 68
Proust, Marcel 53
R
Raban, Jonathan 48
Raffel, Dawn 6, 7, 32
S
Saunders, George 11, 64
Scapellato, Joseph 12
Shakespeare, William 37
Stanislavski, Constantin 46
Stone, Robert 47-48
V
van den Berg, Laura 43-44, 63-64
Vonnegut, Kurt 23-24, 44
W
Waters, Sarah 44, 51, 69
Whisnant, Luke 23
Willis, Connie 23
Woolf, Virginia 9-10, 35
