The author of "Jacob Have I Loved" and "Come Sing, Jimmy Jo" describes the characters in books she has written who are like "Wednesday's children"--full of woe. Discusses dealing with tragedy in children's books. (EL)

Describes the method of composition employed by E. B. White for his third novel, and details his extensive preparatory research on trumpeter swans and his laborious rewriting of his manuscript. (RBW)

Reviews three illustrated books that have legends as their base--"The Month Brothers,""The Winter Wren," and "Grandfather Twilight." (CRH)

Relates the story of how Glen Rounds, author and illustrator, came to work at Holiday House Publishing Company. (CRH)

Explores how Cormier learned the art of writing, its rewards, and the influences on his work. (CRH)

Staff reviewer of the "Horn Book" describes how her love of books came about. (CRH)

This farewell column reviews the form of fiction that dominates children's literature--the short story. Explains why the column's author is giving it up to pursue his own writing. (CRH)

Presents 11 of the more that 50 women whose works are known from the Elizabethan Age. (CRH)

Sigmund Freud's attitudes about writing biographies of authors, and the influence of Freud's work on the interpretations of creativity, are discussed in relation to biographies of and by a number of writers. It is proposed that Freud's contributions, used carefully, have served to enlighten biography. (MSE)

Argues that critics of children's literature who extol the folktale should think twice before so vehemently scorning popular fiction such as the Nancy Drew series and that historians of children's literature should consider further what some writers of children's classics may have owed to the formulas of popular adult fiction. (HOD)

Uses the writing of women authors to reflect on the value of women's domestic world. Suggests that far from being inferior, women's traditional perspective is a source of much needed humanism for both men and women. (MM)

Suggests women writers as alternatives to traditionally taught male writers, identifies women writers as representatives of parallel tradition and genres not usually studied in a survey, and discusses some of the best feminist scholarship and criticism. (MM)

Author reflects on the value to his sixth-form students of a residential creative writing course. (Editor/RK)

These books are representative of the new work in Indian history in the sense that they represent the works of a mixed group of scholars, traditionally trained historians, and scholars who do not fit this label. (Author/AM)

Author talked to Louis Alexander, a best-selling English author virtually unknown in his own country. (Editor/RK)