Dale Salwak

Dale Salwak discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Dale Salwak is Professor of English and American literature at Southern California’s Citrus College. He was educated at Purdue University (B.A.) and the University of Southern California (M.A., Ph.D.) under a National Defense Education Act competitive fellowship program. His 28 books include Living with a Writer (2004), Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature (2008), Writers and Their Mothers (2018), The Life of the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (2023), as well as studies of Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A. J. Cronin, Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, Carl Sandburg, Anne Tyler, and John Wain, and the forthcoming Writers and Their Teachers (2023). He is a recipient of Purdue University’s Distinguished Alumni Award as well as a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a frequent contributor to the (London) Times Higher Education Magazine and the Times Educational Supplement.

1. The writer’s secret life https://nicolebianchi.com/hobbies-of-famous-writers/

2. Importance of solitude https://www.forbes.com/sites/amymorin/2017/08/05/7-science-backed-reasons-you-should-spend-more-time-alone/?sh=351850f81b7e

3. The spirit of place https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/23/biography

4. The value of teachers https://online.merrimack.edu/importance-of-teachers/

5. The natural world https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40228457.html

6. The importance of the classics of literature https://joseardila93.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/literature-other-aspects-of-society-i-find-interesting/

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