For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

by Dave Bidini
For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

by Dave Bidini

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Overview

Dave Bidini’s quirky personal path to becoming a writer (as well as a well-known rock musician and sports enthusiast) began when he was very young and loved to pick at the typewriter.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780887767692
Publisher: Tundra
Publication date: 10/09/2007
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.13(w) x 7.64(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range: 10 - 11 Years

About the Author

Author and musician Dave Bidini is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, Genie and Juno as well CBC's Canada Reads. A founding member of Rheostatics, he has written 10 books, including On a Cold RoadTropic of HockeyAround the World in 57 1/2 Gigs, and Home and Away. He has made two Gemini Award-nominated documentaries and his play, the Five Hole Stories, was staged by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Company, touring the country in 2008. His third book, Baseballissimo, is being developed for the screen by Jay Baruchel, and, in 2010, he won his third National Magazine Award, for "Travels in Narnia." He writes a weekly column for the Saturday Post and, in 2011, he published his latest book, Writing Gordon Lightfoot

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