The Writing of One Novel

In The Writing of One Novel, Irving Wallace shows how the basic idea of a novel about the Nobel Prize awards took form over sixteen years, tells of the false starts, the persistent detective work, the many drafts, the elation, the despair, the work inseparable from the writer's craft. His book has been widely hailed as a unique portrait of a writer's work.

John Barkham, Saturday review syndicate:
"How do novelists create works of fiction? The answer—better than any critic could hope to give i...