How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen

A thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SPECTATOR • “Richard Cohen’s book acted as a tonic to me. It didn’t make me more Russian, but it fired up my imagination. I have never annotated a book so fiercely.”—Hilary Mantel