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Phyllis Raphael - Personal Memoir Writing Consultation and Signed "Off the King's Road"

Item Number: 502

Estimated Value: Priceless
Sold: 50 USD to ckolbet

Number of Bids: 1 - Bid History

Item Description

Have writers block? Need a professional, experienced, and impartial reader for your work? Haven't written a personal essay since college, but would like to try? This is a very special item for the writer or would-be writer.

This item is a personal memoir writing conference/consultation with noted author, Phyllis Raphael. Depending on your needs or skill set, Phyllis will either read your material (up to 25 pages) and provide a critique, editing suggestions, or writing exercises. For the beginning writer Phyllis will provide a conversation on how to get started.

Phyllis Raphael was born in Brooklyn, graduated from Barnard College with a major in English and worked as an elementary school teacher and an actress before she began writing in London in 1969 when she was in her early thirties, when she was supposed to stay for two months, but ended up staying for over two years; the "swinging 60s" were too much for a young mother to resist. After moving back to the states she continued writing publishing a novel in 1972 They Got What They Wanted and started writing for the then-relevant Village Voice.

Phyllis' numerous, often humorous short stories and essays have appeared in The Village Voice, Harpers, O - The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, The New York Times, and many other outlets. She is the winner of a PEN award for short fiction, a Pushcart Prize nominee and has been awarded three Yaddo Fellowships.

She has taught creative writing at New York University and The New School. Currently she teaches at Columbia University where she has been a long time member of the writing faculty.

The winner of this item will also recieve a signed copy of Off the King's Road - Lost and Found in London, a compelling memoir of her time in England.