This classic thematic reader helps students move from personal to analytical writing by engaging them with essays and fiction relevant to their lives.
DAVID CAVITCH is a professor of English at Tufts University, where he was formerly chair of the English department. He has taught composition at the University of California at Riverside, Idaho State University, the University of New Mexico, and Smith College. Cavitch is the author of highly regarded critical studies of D. H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman and the editor of The Springfield Reader (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997).