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American writer, editor, professor and lecturer
"Much of her work focused on Italian American culture, though she was 
also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar." (Wiki)

Crystal is most interested in:

Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling our Stories Transforms our 
Lives (1999)
and
The Art of Slow Writing (2014)

I like both ideas.
I've suggested to a couple of friends, older than myself, that they 
should write their life story -- memoir or autobiography. That was 
enough to teach me that just suggesting the idea is not enough. Writing 
is work, and lots of people don't think they're up to it, or don't think 
they have the time. Another friend goes around to rest homes, talks up 
the idea, and then follows through with practical advice, encouragement 
and feedback to those who do take it up. That produces some results.

Being naturally slowly inclined, in both writing and reading, I endorse 
slow writing and slow reading. I find it hard to believe people who say 
they read several books a week -- though they tend to be people who do 
it for a living (reviewers, radio/TV interviewers, etc.). My slow 
reading is generally a consequence of being easily distracted; every few 
lines I need to look something up or my mind goes wandering off on some 
tangential track....

Slow writing is apparently advocated (in one form or another) by 
Virginia Woolf, D.H.Lawrence, and Stephen King. Stephen King! Well, 
maybe his publisher said "Throttle it back a bit, Steve - the presses 
are overheating again."