Encounters with Authors

ISBN-13: 9781492296515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 172 str.

Dale Andrew White

Opis

This collection of 20 interviews with and articles about noted writers covers fantasy, poetry, mystery, journalism, drama as well as literary, experimental and commercial fiction. * In London, Agatha Christie's theatrical producer guards the secrets of "The Mousetrap." * In Stratford-upon-Avon, actor Derek Jacobi challenges the scholarly interpretation of Shakespeare. * At Florida's Cross Creek, friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings pay homage to her memory. * On Georgia's St. Simons Island, Eugenia Price shuns her label as a "Christian novelist." * Behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner warns us about a pending but preventable "apocalypse." * Southern novelist and journalist Harry Crews remembers his torturous but character-building childhood. * Tennessee Williams dodges the press. * Larry McMurtry describes the process of writing his epic "Lonesome Dove." * John Mortimer testifies on behalf of "Rumpole of the Bailey." * Chaim Potok, author of "The Chosen," renounces religious fundamentalism. * Richard Adams, author of "Watership Down," looks deep into his subconscious. * African poet Kofi Awoonor summons the ghosts of his ancestors. * Bel Kaufman leads a new generation "Up the Down Staircase." * Evan Hunter, Richard Eberhart, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Andre Norton and others talk about the art and business of writing.