Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction

A thorough, illuminating, and entertaining guide to crafting point of view, a fiction writer’s most essential choice.

Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most famili...