Author uses the career of a musician to emphasize the value of determining what part of your writing talent is unique, then "carefully create the best possible surroundings for that talent to grow and flourish."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28970
Notes:
17 pages., Author's career experiences with particular focus on the relationship between a rural background and an academic career. Shortened adaptation was published in Zachary Michael Jack (ed.), Black earth and ivory tower: new American essays from farm and classroom. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, pages 259-264. 2005.
Via online from publisher. 2 pages., Career thoughts from a college student intern on the editorial staff at Beef magazine and Corn and Soybean Digest magazine.
