Writing Books

Books on Writing and the Writing Life

• Your Life As Story by Tristine Rainer
• Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past by William K. Zinsser
• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser
• Write it Forward: From Writer to Successful Author by Bob Mayer
• The Writer’s Workout by Christina Katz
• Author Mama: How I Became a Published Author and How You Can Too by Christina Katz
• Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids by Christina Katz
• Get Known Before the Book Deal: Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform by Christina Katz
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life by Natalie Goldberg
• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
• Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg
• Thunder and Lightening: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft by Natalie Goldberg
• Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art by Judith Barrington
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• Writing Motherhood by Lisa Garrigues
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard