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In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging.
DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process. Writing as a Way of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inspire both experienced and beginning writers.
About the Author
Louise A. DeSalvo (born 1942) is an American writer, editor, professor, and lecturer who currently lives in New Jersey. Much of her work focuses on Italian-American culture, though she is also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar.DeSalvo and her husband raised their children in Teaneck, New Jersey before moving to Montclair to be closer to their grandchildren.She also teaches memoir writing as a part of CUNY Hunter College's MFA Program in Creative Writing.DeSalvo's publications include the memoir,Vertigo, which received the Gay Talese award and was also a finalist for Italy's Primo Acerbi prize for literature;Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family, which was named a Booksense Book of the Year for 2004.DeSalvo is also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar. She has edited editions of Woolf's first novelMelymbrosia, as well asThe Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, which documents the controversial lesbian affair between these two novelists. In addition, she has written two books on Woolf,Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and WorkandVirginia Woolf's First Voyage: A Novel in the Making.One of DeSalvo's most popular books is the writer's guideWriting as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives.(from Wikipedia)
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