This collection of thirty years of interviews with America's only Nobel Prize dramatist records his encounters with the press and gives a striking portrait of the man and the process of his public mythologizing. ...

This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent ...

“Literary journalist,” “lowly social historian,” “chronicler of his times,” and “champion of realism” are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers and critics. In this collect ...

With wit, charm, and grace, the interviews in this collection demonstrate what readers of Wilbur's poems long have suspected: that this former U. S. Poet Laureate is no less persuasive and forceful in ...

This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists.

These interviews show him as a novelist, ...

These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news ...

Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895-1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with ...

In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America's twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great talkers of his time expresses his opinions on just about ...

This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes ...