This Is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is I), book review
This Is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This Is I) Autobiographical sketch by Jack Vance I really enjoyed reading this interesting and unpretentious autobiographical sketch by Jack Vance and highly recommend it to all Vance fans. Published in 2009 by Spatterlight Press, it is only 188 pages long and is not a full autobiography. But I found it engaging to read as it presented some of the highlights of Vance's very active and fascinating life. In the Preliminary Remarks Vance refers to this work as a “memoir” and also as an “autobiographical sketch.” He mentions that the work was initially recorded on tape (he was blind at the time) and that this memoir is “more of a landscape than a self-portrait-or at least a ramble across the landscape that has been my life.” He explains that he does not focus that much on his writings or the process of writing and that “writing is mastered by practice and patience.” He states that “many remarkable persons have wande...