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Forty-two-year old Alonzo Delano joined the California Gold Rush to California hoping to cure a lung ailment and strike it rich. He was a highly observant and intelligent man and frequently wrote to his family in Illinois about his western life. Eventually these letters became a book, Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings. His satirical style of writing influenced such writers as Mark Twain. He lived in Grass Valley California, until his death in 1874.

Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem.

French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been presenting readers with books that draw elegant connections to the art of living and the work of art for decades. In this book, he offers a series of observations and quotations from some of his favorites writers such as Checkhov, Baudelaire, Proust, James Kafka, Mansfield, and many others.

A revealing and practical view of the writer's craft by one of the 20th century's most successful and prolific writers.