From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other Words are the most powerful tools at our disposal. With them, writers have saved lives and taken them, brought justice and confounded it, started wars and ended them. Writers can change the way we think and transform our definitions of right and wrong. Writing to Change the World is a beautiful paean to the transformative power of words. Encapsulating Mary Pipher's years as a writer and therapist, it features rousing commentary, personal anecdotes, memorable quotations, and stories of writers who have helped reshape society. It is a book that will shake up readers' beliefs, expand their minds, and possibly even inspire them to make their own mark on the world.

瑪莉．派佛

兼具知名的心理學家、醫生、作家、人類學家、教授等多重身分，一九九四年出版《拯救奧菲莉亞》，震撼美國社會，家長、教育者開始意識並正視少女面臨的校園暴力、性虐待、保持纖細身材的莫名壓力。瑪莉．派佛因這本著作成為美國家庭問題的權威，從此成為引領美國文化的一股力量，十餘年來影響了許多臨床心理治療者的治療方法。本書在《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜上長達一百四十九週，其中二十八週高居冠軍，銷售量已超過兩百萬本。瑪莉．派佛迄今已出版七本書，作品翻譯為二十五國語言，她曾獲邀至全世界各地演說。她的著作包括《拯救奧菲莉亞》（平安文化）、《可以這樣老去──航向老年國度，兩代結伴同行》（遠流）、《The Shelter of Each Other》、《天涯為家處處家》（The Middle of Everywhere）、《給青年心理諮商師的信》（聯經）等書。瑪莉．派佛曾榮膺洛克菲勒講座學者，曾獲得美國心理學會會長獎的殊榮，現為內布拉斯大學的客座英語與心理學教授，定居於美國內布拉斯州的林肯市。