Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the tade, every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vividimemories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in and how the inextricable link between writing af spurred his recovery.