A Writer’s Life: J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello By Derek Attridge You need an active subscription to view this contentYou should really subscribe now!Or login if you already have a subscription. Share — Issue: Fall 2004 / Volume 80/4 Published: September 1, 2004 Derek Attridge Derek Attridge is the author and editor of numerous works, including J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event (Chicago, 2005) and Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995 (Cambridge, 1998).