The Buzzards

by Janet Burroway

Fiction.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1970

About the author

Janet Burroway is the author of seven novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk (runner up for the national Book award), Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone; a volume of poetry, Material Goods; a collection of essays, Embalming Mom; and two children's books, The Truck on the Track and The Giant Jam Sandwich. Her most recent plays, Medea With Child, Sweepstakes, Division of Property, and Parts of Speech, have received readings and productions in New York, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, and various regional theatres. Her Writing Fiction is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and a multi-genre textbook, Imaginative Writing, appeared in 2002. A B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. from Cambridge University, England, she was Yale School of Drama RCA-NBC Fellow 1960-61, and is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Reviews

[Adam Wahlberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love, love this book -- it's a political novel from 1969 but the insights are as salient today as ever. Top-shelf work from one of America's top stylists, Janet Burroway, the woman who literally wrote the book on writing fiction with her book called, well, Writing Fiction.