# The Art of the Personal Essay

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- Authors: [Phillip Lopate](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillip-lopate)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 1997-01-15

## Description

For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by...

## Editions

### The Art of the Personal Essay

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-8542-339-7
- Pages: 832
- Published: 1997-01-15
- Language: en_US