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7 Ways Donald E. Westlake (and Richard Stark) Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Donald Westlake waves at the reader, imagining a stylish criminal.
Writing
Robert Wood

7 Ways Donald E. Westlake (And Richard Stark) Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Westlake was a three-time winner of the Edgar Award and a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, as well as an Academy Award nominee for his script writing. He is most famous for his comic mysteries starring melancholic criminal John Dortmunder and (as Richard Stark) his crime thrillers starring steely, workmanlike criminal Parker.

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5 Ways Hilary Mantel Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Mantel smiles at the reader, imagining an irritated Cromwell.
Writing
Fred Johnson

5 Ways Hilary Mantel Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Dame Hilary Mantel, best known for her historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, was the first woman and first British author to win the prestigious Man Booker prize twice; if that doesn’t tell you how good she is, I’m not sure what will.

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5 Ways Anne Tyler Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Anne Tyler smiles at the reader, imagining a man with two broken legs and a dog.
Writing
Fred Johnson

5 Ways Anne Tyler Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Celebrated for her humanistic, domestic, and gorgeously observed novels about Baltimore’s middle- and working-class families, Anne Tyler is the kind of single-minded writer who has found her niche and writes it very, very well.

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