The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand (Read in August, 2009)

Ayn Rand is an excellent teacher.

From my Goodreads profile (see here):

I learned fiction writing from Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto (A Philosophy of Literature), and from books that pleasure me. I revere Ayn Rand and her hero in The Fountainhead, Howard Roark....