Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry

Edited by Mollie Godfrey
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Honorable Mention Recipient of the Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship

Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her ...

Conversations with Jay Parini

Edited by Michael Lackey
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he ...

Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Edited by Daria Tunca
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, ...

Conversations with Joanna Scott

Edited by Michael Lackey
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America’s leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott’s unique and probing vision and masterful writing has ...

Conversations with Graham Swift

Edited by Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift’s arrival in New York to promote ...

Conversations with John Banville

Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll & John Cusatis
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although ...

Conversations with Paul Auster

Edited by James M. Hutchisson
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted scholarly scrutiny ...

Conversations with William T. Vollmann

Edited by Daniel Lukes
Categories: Popular Culture
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann’s oeuvre—which includes a “prostitution trilogy,” a septology (Seven Dreams) about encounters between first North Americans and ...

Conversations with Ron Rash

Edited by Mae Miller Claxton & Rain Newcomb
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Since the publication of Serena in 2008 earned him a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. 1953) has gained attention as one of the South's finest writers. Rash draws upon his family's ...

Conversations with Neil Simon

Edited by Jackson R. Bryer & Ben Siegel
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Neil Simon (1927–2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day—including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis—and he wrote for fabled television programs alongside a gro ...