COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE Paperback Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace corner tip wear. A look behind the scenes, so to speak, of how novelists, poets, and essayists modified & re-fashioned their final work, sometimes at the eleventh hour. Like studying preliminary sketches of painters, the volume provides insight to some 101 literary works in progress. An inside look at how 101 distinguished novelists, essayists, poets, and humorists made the decisions that altered their now-famous works. Chapters on False Starts, Cast-Off Lines and Fragments, Journals and Notes.,