A great storyteller can bring a character to life, metaphorically speaking. There's no one who does it better than the novelist and poet Wendell Berry. His Port William "membership" is replete with memorable characters, and his Burley Coulter is one of the great characters in contemporary literature.Sometimes a storyteller or novelist will confess that he did not know a character when he first introduced him. J.R.R. Tolkien said as much about his character "Strider." He introduced him [...]
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