'As familiar as the air we breathe'

 

 “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.” 

Born in 1942, Lunsford has been a teacher, presenter and author at Ohio State and Stanford Universities and the world-renowned Bread Loaf School of English near Middlebury, VT (also a favorite teaching haunt for poet Robert Frost in his day).

 

Author of the great text Everyday Writer, Lunsford has written or edited numerous books, chapters and articles. Among her most recent is Everyone's an Author.

“No doubt stories have touched your life . . . from bedtime stories you may have heard as a child to news stories you see on TV or read in a newspaper.  We might even say that a major goal of living is to create the story of our own lives, a story we hope to take pleasure and pride in telling.”