Essays from, among others, playwright Edward Albee, analyst Joseph Henderson, actor Lee Marvin, scientist Linus Pauling, novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer, critic and philosopher Jacques Barzun, literary critic Norman Sherry, and poet Naomi Nye on the creative life, focusing on the paradoxes and reflections of creativity: autobiography, literary biography, music, science, drama, poetry, storytelling, criticism, parageography, and war.

Table of Contents

Jacques Barzun - A Teacher Critic The Paradoxes of Creativity

Isaac Bashevis Singer - A Storyteller Images and Stories

Naomi Shihab Nye - A Poet Discovering Ourselves Through Words: Pajamas in the Wind

Lee Marvin - An Actor People Need People: Greater Consciousness of Human Values

Linus Pauling - A Scientist An Extraordinary Life: An Autobiographical Ramble

Joseph L. Henderson - A Jungian Psychologist on Religion Symbolic Contents of the Inner World of Imagery

Anthony Stevens - A Jungian Psychologist on War War and Creativity

Norman Sherry - A Literary Biographer Confessions of a Literary Detective: Following in the Footsteps of Joseph Conrad in the Far East and Africa

Peter Ostwald - A Psychiatric Biographer Life and Music of Robert Schumann: On Keeping Music and Musicians Alive and Well

Douglass Parker - A Parageographer Places for Anything: Building Imaginary Worlds

Edward Albee - A Playwright A Playwright and Contemporary Society: A Discussion