Stories (and their stories):

About the Book

Stories and their stories Readers ask, “Where did you get that idea?” In Stories and Their Stories, James Calvin Schaap brings the reader behind the scenes in ways that answer that frequent question and shed new light on the stories he’s selected for this collection. Moving stories--fascinating commentary, a book for writers.

About the Author

For fifty years, James Calvin Schaap has written short stories and novels, histories, devotionals, short essays, and podcasts. For forty of those years, he taught literature and writing at Dordt University. In Stories and their Stories, he uses the voice of a teacher to open the voice of a writer.