"A mesmerizing book of essays by famous pens who themselves were once helped --
or hurt -- by established talents as they tried to climb their way up the
literary ladder. [Mentors, Muses & Monsters] beautifully captures the
experience of being a literary aspirant -- wide-eyed, enchanted by words, and
eager for the tutelage of a mentor -- one who's already scaled the temple wall
and emerged, shining, in a turret." -- The Christian Science MonitorThe featured text of the Summer Young Writers Institute at Skidmore this year will be Summer Institute faculty member Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives, reissued in a new paperback edition by SUNY Press in February 2012.
