Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected ...

Edward Albee has reigned over the American theater since 1959. By transporting the techniques of European absurdism to American soil, he ushered in a new era in the American theater. He has said he won ...

Arthur Miller clearly enjoys militantly civil conversation. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Miller in interviews is his willingness to answer question after question with grace and substance, with ...

As this collection of interviews shows, Flannery O'Connor's fiction, though bound to a particular time and place, embodies and reveals universal ideas. O'Connor's curiosity about human nature and its ...

Truman Capote (1924–1984) once said, “The thing I like to do most in the whole world is talk. . . ,” and talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book. The topics are ...

This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with ...

This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This revered editor, poet, literary historian, and critic ...