Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Edited by Paul Skenazy & Tera Martin
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

In 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston burst into American literature with the publication of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Since then her subsequent works--China Men (1980) and Tripmaster ...

Conversations with Chinua Achebe

Edited by Bernth Lindfors
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the English-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. His publishers estimate that more than eight million copies of his ...

Conversations with N. Scott Momaday

Edited by Matthias Schubnell
Categories: Race And Ethnicity
Series: Literary Conversations Series

When his first novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969, N. Scott Momaday was virtually unknown. Today he is the most acclaimed Native American writer, working at the ...

Conversations with V. S. Naipaul

Edited by Feroza Jussawalla
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Intense, controversial, unfailingly clever, V. S. Naipaul has won nearly every major British writing award, including the prestigious Booker Award (in 1971 for In a Free State) and in 1990 was knighted ...

Conversations with Pauline Kael

Edited by Will Brantley
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Pauline Kael brings together roughly half of Kael's published interviews along with a lively debate between Kael and Jean-Luc Godard. Collectively, the interviews provide rewarding perspectives ...

Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop

Edited by George Monteiro
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

This book brings together almost all of the known interviews Elizabeth Bishop gave over a period of thirty years. Included also are a few selected pieces based on conversations with her. All together ...

More Conversations with Eudora Welty

Edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

This book of conversations with one of America’s most revered writers extends the firsthand account of Eudora Welty’s life and work from the early 1980s to the present and supplements Conversations ...

Conversations with Derek Walcott

Edited by William Baer
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment." The lively interviews ...

Conversations with Susan Sontag

Edited by Leland Poague
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. ...

Conversations with Ishmael Reed

Edited by Bruce Dick & Amritjit Singh
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Literary Conversations Series

As a fiercely independent thinker, Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo, Flight to Canada, Reckless Eyeballing, and other works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, is often in conflict with the culture ...