This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists.

These interviews show him as a novelist, ...

With wit, charm, and grace, the interviews in this collection demonstrate what readers of Wilbur's poems long have suspected: that this former U. S. Poet Laureate is no less persuasive and forceful in ...

Allan Chavkin is editor of Conversations with John Gardner and coeditor (with Nancy Feyl Chavkin) of Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, both published by University Press of Mississippi. ...

William Butts is the editor of Conversations with Richard Wilbur, published by University Press of Mississippi.

In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America's twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great talkers of his time expresses his opinions on just about ...

Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895-1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with ...

Frank L. Kersnowski is editor of Conversations with Robert Graves and coeditor (with Alice Hughes) of Conversations with Henry Miller, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
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Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s gives new focus to the wide field of humor is the first comprehensive anthology of American women's humorous writing. ...