Louise DeSalvo died (31/10/2018)

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."