Writers on Record

Lewis Buzbee's fiction for adults include Fliegelman's Desire, a novel, First to Leave Before the Sun, a novella, and a collection of stories, After the Gold Rush. He has also published two books of nonfiction, Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom, and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, which was a best seller on three continents, has been translated into four languages, and has two bookshops in England named after it.  His novels for younger readers are Steinbeck's Ghost, winner of the Beatty Award from the California Library Association, The Haunting of Charles Dickens, winner of the Northern California Book Award and nominated for an Edgar Award, and Bridge of Time.  His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Harper's, GQ, New York Times Books Review, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.  A bookseller and publisher for 20 years, he now teaches writing in San Francisco.  His most recent publication, perhaps the pinnacle of his writing career, is in a lette