Middle-grade and young adult readers can turn to The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy to learn more about favorite fantasy authors. Leonard S. Marcus interviewed thirteen fantasy authors for this book; each interview is introduced with a short profile and accompanied by photographs of the authors as adults and as children, as well samples of their work.

The Wand in the Word is a fascinating and inspirational book. Besides being an interesting look at some of the best fantasy writers of our time, it also shows that authors are regular people with regular problems - one even struggled with dyslexia as a child. The Wand in the Word a great book for kids who aspire to be writers, or those who love books but think they could never write.

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