Filled with colourful details and rich with photographs of the author's life, It Is Written is a beautifully written page-turner about how one person turns the raw materials of life into art. Over a thirty-year career as a published author of fiction, poetry, and essays, Philip Lee Williams has become one of the US south's most-honoured writers. Now, Williams tells the story of his creative life in an open, jaunty, and often hilarious autobiography.