“Writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe." - Andrea Lunsford
Lunsford, who has been a faculty member in two
great writing venues, Stanford University and the Bread Loaf School of English near Middlebury,
VT, is author of The
Everyday Writer, one of
the best texts on writing that any aspiring writer could hope to have on his or
her desk.
While she might be best known for her distinguished teaching career, Lunsford also has found time to write more than a dozen books. And she's penned numerous essays on writing and the teaching of writing, which she does at Bread Loaf, which gets its name by virtue of its
location – on Middlebury College’s mountain campus below Bread Loaf Mountain.
Great
writing and great teaching about it – in
literature, creative writing, and theater – has taken place there since
1920 using tools developed by teachers like Robert Frost and Lunsford, who has
given us the gift of writing through Everyday
Writer. Thanks to her, writing can, and does, surround us all.
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