TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing SN - 9780521662604 (hbk.) : U1 - 809 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Authorship KW - Authors KW - Psychology KW - Criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-207) and index N2 - What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse - their activities ER -