What is the role of writers' own compassion for their characters? How does a writer’s love for a character or preferably all of their characters impact the experience of the reader? This class will be an experimental examination of the ways in which our own capacity to love even very difficult people creates that most elusive of things : a beloved book.
GOLDIE GOLDBLOOM is a writer, teacher and editor, author of four internationally award-winning books of fiction, most recently On Division (winner of the Prix des Libraires in France), and many articles, short stories and essays that have appeared around the world. For more than fifteen years, she was on the faculty at Northwestern University and/or the University of Chicago. She currently runs a developmental editing service for best-selling authors, celebrities and talented writers from all walks of life. She is the mother of eight children and an LGBTQ activist.
