Becoming a Writer

Written by Dorothea Brande

Narrated by Bonnie Agan

Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. She also insists that writing can be both taught and learned.

This is Dorothea Brande's legacy to all those who have ever wanted to express their ideas in written form. A sound, practical, inspirational, and charming approach to writing, it fulfills on finding the writer's magic. This brand new audio edition is expressively narrated by Bonnie Agan.

Recorded by arrangement with TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©1934, 1961, 1981 Harcourt, Brace & Company; Gilbert I. Collins and Justin Brande. Foreword copyright by J. P. Tarcher, Inc. (P)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
• Release date: Jun 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9781666670370

Dorothea Brande

Dorothea Brande (1893–1948) was an American writer and editor in New York City. She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute in Chicago and the University of Michigan.Her book "Becoming a Writer", published in 1934, is still in print and offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise. She also wrote "Wake Up and Live!", published in 1936, which sold more than two million copies. It was made into the film Wake Up and Live in 1937.While she was serving as associate editor of The American Review in 1936, she married the journal's owner and editor, Seward Collins. Dorothea Brande Collins died in New Hampshire.