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This year marks the 20th anniversary of what Poets & Writerscalled a "ground-breaking book."

W.W. Norton isssued a special edition of THE WRITER ON HER WORK, volume one, with a preface by JULIA ALVAREZ, a new introduction by JANET STERNBURG and biographical updates on writers Anne Tyler, Joan Didion, Mary Gordon, Nancy Milford, Honor Moore, Michele Murray, Margaret Walker, Susan Griffin, Alice Walker, Ingrid Bengis, Toni Cade Bambara, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Janet Burroway, Muriel Rukeyser and Gail Godwin.

THE WRITER ON HER WORK, Companion Volume II, New Essays in New Territory, includes essays from: Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Anita Desai, Harriet Doerr, Rita Dove, Gretel Ehrlich, Carolyn Forché, Kaye Gibbons, Natalia Ginzburg, Patricia Hampl, Linda Hogan, Diane Johnson, Elizabeth Jolley, Maxine Kumin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jan Morris, Bharati Mukherjee, Elena Poniatowska, Luisa Valenzuela and Joy Williams.

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