APPENDIX B

For Further Reading

It does a writer no harm to read what others have to say about writing.
Sometimes he even picks up a new ideal.
The books here listed are among those Ive found helpful and/or
stimulating. As such, they represent personal taste and nothing more, but
you may enjoy some of them too.
Included also are a few titles on such related topics as imagination,
interviewing, psychology and research, plus key fictional works to which
reference is made in the text.
The editions listed are those that happen to be on my own shelves.
Adams, Clifton. The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones. New York:
Doubleday & Co., 1963.
Allen, Walter (ed.). Writers on Writing. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
(Everyman Paperbacks), 1959.
Barzun, Jacques, and Graff, Henry F. The Modem Researcher. New York:
Harcourt, Brace & World (Harbinger Books), 1962.
Bedford-Jones, H. This Fiction Business. New York: Covid-Friede, 1929.
. The Graduate Fictioneer. Denver: Author & Journalist Publ Co., 1932.
Brean, Herbert (ed.). The Mystery Writers Handbook. New York: Harper
& Bros., 1956.
Campbell, Walter S. Writing: Advice and Devices. New York: Doubleday
& Co., 1959.
. Writing Magazine Fiction. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940.
Cowley, Malcolm. The Literary Situation. New York: Viking Press, 1958.
(ed.). Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. New York: Viking
Press, 1958.
Egri, Lajos. The Art of Dramatic Writing. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1946.
. Your Key to Successful Writing. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1952.

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Elwood, Maren. Characters Make Your Story. Boston: The Writer, Inc.,
1949.
Fink, David. Release from Nervous Tension. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1953.
Fischer, John, and Silvers, Robert B. Writing in America. New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1960.
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1962.
Fuller, Edmund. Man in Modem Fiction. New York: Random House
(Vintage Books), 1958.
Gallaway, Marian. Constructing a Play. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1950.
Harral, Stewart. Keys to Successful Interviewing. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1954.
Harris, Foster. The Basic Formulas of Fiction. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1944.
. The Basic Patterns of Plot. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1959.
. The Look of the Old West, New York: Viking, 1955.
Hayakawa, S. I. Language in Thought and Action. New York: Harcourt,
Brace & Co., 1949.
Hull, Helen (ed.). The Writers Book. New York: Bames & Noble, 1956.
, and Drury, Michael (eds.). Write/s Roundtable. New York: Harper &
Bros., 1959.
Hutchinson, Eliot D. How to Think Creatively. New York: AbingdonCokesbury Press, 1949.
Jaffe, Rona. The Best of Everything. New York: Simon & Schuster, J958.
Kerr, Walter. How Not to Write a Play. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1955.
Macgowan, Kenneth. A Primer of Playwriting. New York: Doubleday &
Co. (Dolphin Books), 1962.
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Techniques of Fiction Writing. Boston: The
Writer, Inc., 1959.
McHugh, Vincent. Primer of the Novel. New York: Random House, 1950.
Maugham, W. Somerset. The Art of Fiction. New York: Doubleday & Co.,
1955.
. The Summing Up. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1938.
. A Writers Notebook. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1949.
Mundy, Talbot. The Soul of a Regiment In Adventure magazine,
November 1950.

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Noyes, Arthur P. Modem Clinical Psychiatry. 4th ed., Chapter 4, Mental

Mechanisms and Their Functions. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co.,
1953.
Osborn, Alex. Your Creative Power. New York: Charles Scribners Sons,
1948.
Palmer, Stuart. Understanding Other People. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell Co., 1955.
Peeples, Edwin A. A Professional Storytellers Handbook. New York:
Doubleday & Co., i960.
Ray, Marie Beynon. The Importance of Feeling Inferior. New York: Ace
Books, 1957.
Read, Herbert. English Prose Style. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.
Reynolds, Paul R. The Writer and His Markets. New York: Doubleday &
Co., 1959.
Smith, Helen Reagan. Basic Story Techniques. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1964.
Trask, Georgianne, and Burkhart, Charles (eds.). Storytellers and Their
Art. New York: Doubleday & Co. (Anchor Books), 1963.
Vale, Eugene. The Technique of Screenplay Writing. New York: Grosset
& Dunlap, 1972.
Yoakem, Lola G. (ed.). TV and Screen Writing. Article, The Opening
Scenes, by Frank S. Nugent Berkeley: University of California Press,
1958.