Conversations with Chaim Potok

Edited by Daniel Walden
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

One of America's most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok (b. 1929) is the author of such novels as The Chosen (1967), The Promise (1969), The Book of Lights (1981), and Davita's Harp (1985). Each of his ...

Conversations with Wole Soyinka

Edited by Biodun Jeyifo
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is the most prominent writer from the African continent and one of the greatest living playwrights in the English language. His plays have been produced by the leading professional ...

Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

Edited by Ellen L. Arnold
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Leslie Marmon Silko, one of America's best known Native authors, was born in 1948 and grew up at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, of mixed Laguna, Mexican, and white ancestry. Her early short stories, poems, ...

Conversations with Salman Rushdie

Edited by Michael R. Reder
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Acclaim, success, and controversy follow every one of Salman Rushdie's writings. His novels and stories have won him awards and made him both famous in the literary world and a catalyst for protests worldwide. ...

Conversations with William S. Burroughs

Edited by Allen Hibbard
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Although a rather shy, private man, William S. Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in obscure forums. The interviews collected here provide ...

Conversations with John Fowles

Edited by Dianne L. Vipond
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Although best known for his novels The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles is also a short story writer, a poet, a respected translator, and a prolific essayist. In his ...

Conversations with E. L. Doctorow

Edited by Christopher D. Morris
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

At the outset of his career E. L. Doctorow told Paul Levine, "History written by historians is clearly insufficient." Doctorow's novels carry out that conviction by imagining the great moments of American ...

Conversations with William Faulkner

Edited by M. Thomas Inge
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

William Faulkner was not keen on giving interviews. More often than not, he refused, as when he wrote an aspiring interviewer in 1950, “Sorry but no. Am violently opposed to interviews and publicity. ...

Jorge Luis Borges

Edited by Richard Burgin
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed ...

Conversations with Denise Levertov

Edited by Jewel Spears Brooker
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Denise Levertov, American poet and activist, died in December 1997 at the age of 74. This book contains some twenty previously uncollected interviews conducted between the early 1960s and the middle of ...