The Writing of Fiction

Essays on the craft of fiction writing from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel The Age of Innocence . In The Writing of Fiction , Edith Wharton, a prolific writer and one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors, shares her thoughts on fiction writing, devoting individual chapters to short stories and novels. She stresses the importance of writers putting thought into how they build their story, from selecting subject matter and fashioning characters to crafting situatio