Dates Mentioned in Book Beat Broadcasts

This table of centuries, decades and years intends to show every date mentioned in the Don Swaim Collection's Book Beat broadcast transcripts. It was generated from data mined by Python Natural Language Processing library spaCy, which uses a machine learning model trained on the OntoNotes corpus of news and conversations to tag named entities, including dates. It does not get everything right—especially at the beginning and end of the table—but it does offer a detailed cross-section of the temporal world of Book Beat.

Century Decade Year Mention
1001 “...Information about Maus and Raw can be obtained by writing to, 27 Green Street, New York, 10013....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-20

1001 “...You can reach Lawrence Block about his, Write for your Life Seminar at 95 Horatio St., New York, 10014....”

Interviewee(s): Block, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-13

1002 “...The address of the Zagat Restaurant Surveys, Zagat is spelled Z-A-G-A-T, is 55 Central Park West, New York, 10023....”

Interviewee(s): Zagat, Tim
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-23

1002 “...Given its size, the $8.98 Zagat Restaurant Survey is now on sale at bookstores and newsstands nationwide, or directly from Zagat, spelled Z-A-G-A-T. 55 Central Park West, NY 10023....”

Interviewee(s): Zagat, Tim
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-24

1006 “...The Book of Kells mysteriously vanished after it's creation but in the year 1006, it was found buried in a bog near Kells, Ireland near Dublin....”

Interviewee(s): Duggelin, Urs
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-05

1300-1400 “...I started to read a great deal about the plague in the 14th century when half the world's population was wiped out within a year....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1991-07-22

1300-1400 “...One of the nation's best writers is Jane Smiley, author of the 1988 novel, The Greenlanders, a historical saga about the Norse world of the 14th Century....”

Interviewee(s): Smiley, Jane
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-22

1300-1400 “...Jane Smiley's seventh and most recent book tackles less ambitious themes than the 14th century Norse world of her 1988 novel The Greenlanders....”

Interviewee(s): Smiley, Jane
Broadcast circa: 1991-03-21

1300-1400 “...And he sold a 14th century manuscript of Aesop's Fables to the Toronto Public Library....”

Interviewee(s): International Antiquarian Book Fair (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-28

1500-1600 “...Kingston says the title stems from a Chinese folk legend about a monkey in the 16th century....”

Interviewee(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-26

1500-1600 “...Shogun is an epic story of 16th century Japan....”

Interviewee(s): Clavell, James
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-21

1584 “...The Dutch are believed to have conducted the first book auction back in 1584, and New York's Swann Galleries is continuing the tradition....”

Interviewee(s): Baden, Michael M. | Lowry, George
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-18

1599 “...Since 1599, visitors have trekked through the Poets' Corner, at London's Westminster Abbey where famed writers are celebrated and buried....”

Interviewee(s): Haberman, Daniel, 1933-1991
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-24

1600-1700 “...In her collective biography, The Weaker Vessel, Fraser looks at the women who beat the system in the 17th century....”

Interviewee(s): Fraser, Antonia, 1932-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-31

1600-1700 “...Atwood says that in crafting The Handmaid's Tale, a futuristic story of a religious dictatorship in which women are subjugated, she has, in a way, returned to her roots, her ancestors were Puritans who came to the New World in the 1600s....”

Interviewee(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-20

1600-1700 “...Mallon says imitation was considered acceptable through the Renaissance but things changed by the 17th century....”

Interviewee(s): Mallon, Thomas, 1951-
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-11

1600-1700 “...Lou Dorfsman borrowed a 17th century typeface called Didot....”

Interviewee(s): Dorfsman, Lou, 1918-2008
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-14

1600-1700 “...The recent critically praised film Black Robe about a Jesuit missionary in Canada in the 1600s was scripted by Brian Moore, who based it on his novel....”

Interviewee(s): Moore, Brian, 1921-1999
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-02

1600-1700 “...And Moore's novel Black Robe, the story of a Jesuit missionary in the Canada of the 1600s, has been made into a powerful film....”

Interviewee(s): Moore, Brian, 1921-1999
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-03

1600-1700 “...Librarian Robert Nightkirk says the objects were owned by writers that lived in 17th century England up to the 20th century, with one living writer represented, J. B. Priestley....”

Interviewee(s): Nightkirk, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-09

1649 “...The selections for the show start as early as 1649 with a London imprint that was burned in Boston because it offended the magistrates of the Massachusets Bay colony and it extends down to the revolutionary crisis and includes such things as the Declaration of Independence....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, Cal | Vonnegut, Kurt | Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005 | Blume, Judy | Alter, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-28

1650 “...The first book to be suppressed in the United States publicly was a treatise on theology and it was in 1650....”

Interviewee(s): Hentoff, Nat
Broadcast circa:

1700-1800 “...Anne Rice's book, Cry to Heaven, dealt with Italy's castrati opera singers of the 18th century....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-03

1700-1800 “...The Volcano Lover focuses on a real-life 18th century aristocrat, Sir William Hamilton, who becomes ambassador to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1764....”

Interviewee(s): Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-10-05

1700-1800 “...In London, Sontag discovered some 18th century prints of a volcano....”

Interviewee(s): Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-10-06

1700-1800 “...Bosse a professor at the city university of New York, teaches 18th century english literature, and does not believe in creative writing courses....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1991-07-24

1700-1800 “...In the 18th Century, it didn't have any kind of insect sense....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-09

1700-1800 “...John Fowles says A Maggot is not a historical novel, but is true to the language and flavor of the 18th century....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-09

1700-1800 “...And the 18th Century British did their best to exterminate what was thought to be a criminal class....”

Interviewee(s): Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-16

1700-1800 “...The Enchantress traces the odyssey of a Swiss brother and sister to the Orient of the 18th century, where they worked on clocks and robots for the Mandarins and were caught up in a siege of an ancient Thai city by the Burmese....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-04

1700-1800 “...And then we went on and on until we reached the 18th century, and we had the first androids....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-05

1700-1800 “...Han Suyin opens her novel The Enchantress in 18th century Switzerland, where a brother and sister are trained to work on clocks and robots, and eventually sail to the Orient....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-05

1700-1800 “...Historically it was quite true that in the 18th century Swiss young people were being sent to China to wind up the watches and clocks and the automata of the Chinese emperor....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-05

1700-1800 “...Her latest is The Enchantress, a poetic and magical historical adventure set in 18th century Europe and Asia....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-05

1700-1800 “...I studied 18th Century English Lit, and decided, after I got my Masters, that if I finished my PhD, which I did part of, I would never be a writer....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-30

1700-1800 “...John Edgar Wideman at last shot the story of the 18th century plague into being....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-09

1700-1800 “...My ambition now is to embark on a great cycle of historical novels, which will take me back to the 18th century initially, back to the era of the French and Indian Wars and the first frontier of America, the Mohawks, the Iroquois....”

Interviewee(s): Moss, Robert, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-25

1736 “...John Fowles' newest novel, A Maggot, is set in England in 1736, and describes the imaginary events leading to the birth of Ann Lee, the woman who brought the Shaker religion to America....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-07

1736 “...Fowles says the original working title was 1736, the year in which the story is set, but then he decided he wanted a title somewhat more quirky....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-09

1764 “...The Volcano Lover focuses on a real-life 18th century aristocrat, Sir William Hamilton, who becomes ambassador to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1764....”

Interviewee(s): Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-10-05

1776 “...The Declaration was run off on July 4, 1776....”

Interviewee(s): Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-14

1776 “...Incidentally, on that day in 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was run off, over in England, King George the Third wrote in his diary, "Nothing important happened today."...”

Interviewee(s): Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-14

1782 “...In the January/February issue of The American Book Collector, Lawrence Parke Murphy, Adjunct Rare Book Librarian at the New York Public Library, writes about a Bible printed by Robert Aitken, of Philadelphia, in 1782....”

Interviewee(s): Murphy, Lawrence Parke
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-15

1788 “...The first fleet containing the convicts sailed into Sydney harbor in 1788....”

Interviewee(s): Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-16

1793 “...The title story of Fever is set in 1793, as a deadly plague ravages Philadelphia....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-11

1794 “...Some 20 years ago, John Edgar Wideman was preparing to teach a course in Afro-American studies at Penn, when he came across a narrative written in 1794 by Richard Allen, founder of the AME Zion Church....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-09

1795 “...Water Music described Mungo Park's travels to the interior of Africa in 1795 and all I had to do was read Mungo's account....”

Interviewee(s): Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-01

1798 “...Hale says it was launched by a Massachusets man, Robert B. Thomas in 1798, when the US had just 15 states and a population of fewer than four million....”

Interviewee(s): Hale, Judson D.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-17

1800-1900 “...oh, my God, 19th century London, the arctic Montreal of prairies....”

Interviewee(s): Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-11

1800-1900 “...The Immigrant introduced the family patriarch, Dan Lovette, who was born in a boxcar headed west in the late 1800s....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-04

1800-1900 “...Irving's influences were the novelists of the 19th century, such as Dickens and Hardy....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-08

1800-1900 “...Steve's vision from the beginning had been that we will change the world one person, one computer at a time, and that the Macintosh was going to have the same impact on society that the telephone had on society back in the late 19th century....”

Interviewee(s): Sculley, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-08

1800-1900 “...As waves of European immigrants poured into America during the late 19th century, the temperance mind found it hard to react to such a diverse society....”

Interviewee(s): Lender, Mark Edward, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1982-03-22

1800-1900 “...A 19th century novelist named Bulwer-Lytton used that opening line in his otherwise forgettable novel called "Paul Clifford....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Scott, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-13

1800-1900 “...Giroux says Malamud's novel in progress is set in the 19th century, and is the story of a Jewish pedlar with a horse and wagon who confronts Indians in the Far West....”

Interviewee(s): Giroux, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-25

1800-1900 “...Vampires certainly, but also the main characters in her second novel, The Feast of All Saints, about people of mixed races in the 19th century....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-03

1800-1900 “...As Armistead Maupin notes, Charles Dickens did it in the 19th century....”

Interviewee(s): Maupin, Armistead
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-27

1800-1900 “...Jack Matthews drew on his collection of Americana to research his novel Sassafras, the story of a young man in the 19th century who becomes a phrenologist, a person said to be able to determine human character by studying the bumps on the head....”

Interviewee(s): Matthews, Jack
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-13

1800-1900 “...Even in the 19th century, phrenology was treated skeptically....”

Interviewee(s): Matthews, Jack
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-14

1800-1900 “...The story of the acerbic 19th century wit and critic Ambrose Bierce....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-15

1800-1900 “...Editor Mark Hoffman says the almanac started in the 19th Century as a handbook for journalists, but then faded....”

Interviewee(s): Hoffman, Mark (Mark S.)
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-18

1800-1900 “...Martin says she relied on journals and diaries of the 19th century to capture the period detail....”

Interviewee(s): Martin, Valerie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1990-04-10

1800-1900 “...When William Least Heat-Moon first visited Chase County in the Flint Hills of Kansas, he entered a place that seemed trapped in the 19th century....”

Interviewee(s): Heat Moon, William Least
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-23

1800-1900 “...Ron Hansen notes that most of the gang activity of the late 1800s took place east of the Missouri River and that the bandits were not Western oriented....”

Interviewee(s): Hansen, Ron, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-09

1800-1900 “...In addition to describing what Jesse ate, how he dressed, how he lived, Hansen was also true to the language of the 19th century....”

Interviewee(s): Hansen, Ron, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-10

1800-1900 “...This was unacceptable in the 19th century....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, Cal | Vonnegut, Kurt | Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005 | Blume, Judy | Alter, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-28

1800-1900 “...Joyce says censorship aimed at morality caught on in 19th century America....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, Cal | Vonnegut, Kurt | Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005 | Blume, Judy | Alter, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-06

1800-1900 “...The Indians have been writing since the late 1800s, but there really hasn't been a kind of explosion of that writing, particularly in fiction, drama and poetry, 'til after 1969....”

Interviewee(s): King, Thomas, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-05

1800-1900 “...In a notorious 19th century case, Charles Reade, author of The Cloister and the Hearth, published a short story in Harper's Magazine that he stole from an obscure French writer....”

Interviewee(s): Mallon, Thomas, 1951-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-27

1800-1900 “...In his new comic novel, The Lyre of Orpheus, Robinson Davies writes of a foundation for the arts which sets out to stage a 19th century opera about King Arthur, published by Viking....”

Interviewee(s): Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-13

1800-1900 “...As photography caught on in the 19th century, the stereograph was invented....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-07

1800-1900 “...Quinn's Book, which is set in the middle of the 19th century, opens with a disaster....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-22

1800-1900 “...Quinn's Book is set in Albany, New York, in the mid 19th century....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-23

1800-1900 “...Preoccupied as it is with 19th century death and violence....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-15

1800-1900 “...So he went to Switzerland to recuperate, because that's what the characters in 19th century romantic novels did....”

Interviewee(s): Helprin, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-19

1800-1900 “...Learned how to shoot them and found out that those 19th century weapons were indeed very accurate....”

Interviewee(s): Jennings, Gary
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-22

1800-1900 “...Spangle is a sprawling account of 19th century circus life, voluminous in detail, published by Atheneum....”

Interviewee(s): Jennings, Gary
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-22

1800-1900 “...Gary Jennings writes of the 19th century circus world in his huge, colorful novel Spangle....”

Interviewee(s): Jennings, Gary
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-23

1800-1900 “...Spangle is about a 19th century circus troupe headed by a colorful circus master named Florian....”

Interviewee(s): Jennings, Gary
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-24

1800-1900 “...It's the story of a magic 19th Century New York City where horses fly and men live hundreds of years....”

Interviewee(s): Helprin, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1991-08-30

1800-1900 “...19th century chess player's games are recorded move by move, so you have the games of great players like Paul Morphy or Steinitz or Capablanca Er-leek-en and the like, and you can play through them and you can see what moves the man made....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-04

1800-1900 “...Nissenson's fifth book, The Tree of Life, set in the Ohio wilderness of the early 1800s, has captured widespread critical attention....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-11

1800-1900 “...He wrote in the middle of the 19th century and he had one that was so awful,...”

Interviewee(s): Baker, Russell, 1925-
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-02

1800-1900 “...Much of Depths of Glory was written in the 19th century French country studio that Pissarro used in his final years....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-13

1809 “...Boston, where Poe was born in 1809 and where he published his first book of poems, Tamerlane....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa:

1809 “...Poe was born in 1809, abandoned by his father and orphaned at the age of three....”

Interviewee(s): Silverman, Kenneth
Broadcast circa: 1992-03-31

1811 “...Set in frontier Ohio in 1811, The Tree of Life is a journal maintained by a complicated alcoholic New Englander....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-10

1811 “...Hugh Nissenson's novel, The Tree of Life, is the story, in the form of a journal, of a wasted New Englander, living in frontier Ohio in 1811....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-12

1812 “...and it's a mess, whereas you might take a book that was printed in 1812 and it looks like it was printed yesterday....”

Interviewee(s): Goldsmith, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-30

1815 “...1815 was the eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies, which was a tremendous volcano eruption....”

Interviewee(s): Hale, Judson D.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-17

1816 “...Of course the big break he had was in 1816, when by a printer's error, really, he predicted snow for the summer of 1816....”

Interviewee(s): Hale, Judson D.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-17

1820 “...One day, Elkins was reading about a party of mountain climbers who were caught in an avalanche on a Swiss glacier in 1820....”

Interviewee(s): Elkins, Aaron J.
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-16

1825 “..." It's about a young man born in Ohio in 1825 who grows up to become a phrenologist....”

Interviewee(s): Matthews, Jack
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-14

1826 “...Fenimore Cooper went there 1826, and went there for six months, perhaps a year, and stayed for seven years....”

Interviewee(s): Morton, Brian N.
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-17

1828 “...Starting in 1828, the novel focuses on two feuding families....”

Interviewee(s): Tryon, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-12

1830s “...As Charles Scribner Jr. was growing up, it was understood that he would one day join the family business, the venerable Scribner's Publishing House founded by Charles' great grandfather in the 1830s....”

Interviewee(s): Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-24

1830 “...In his book, An American Procession, Kazin writes of the major literary figures, whose greatest work came between 1830 and 1930....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-11

1830 “...Alfred Kazin, Knopf has published his interpretation of the major figures in American writing from 1830-1930, An American Procession....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-11

1830 “...In his book, An American Procession, Kazin looks at the century he considers most crucial in American Literature, 1830 to 1930, ushered in by Ralph Waldo Emerson, closed by William Faulkner....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-15

1833 “...Dr. Michael Baden had hungered for a book he wanted for his collection, a rare medical text by William Beaumont, published in 1833....”

Interviewee(s): Baden, Michael M. | Lowry, George
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-19

1833 “...Plattsburgh, 1833, I have a bid of $850....”

Interviewee(s): Baden, Michael M. | Lowry, George
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-19

1839 “...It all began with a device invented in 1839 by a man named Daguerre....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-06

1839 “...Vicki Goldberg says that as early as 1839, the police in Europe started taking mugshots of criminals, but not successfully because of the lack of standardization....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-07

1840 “...I was just out of high school then, and I remember seeing a book published in Dayton in 1840, it was about the Louis and Clark expedition, and I thought what a marvelous thing to have, a book that was that old, over 100 years old at that time, about this legendary journey across the continent....”

Interviewee(s): Matthews, Jack
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-13

1840 “...and he's involved in everything that has to do with that period of 1840 to 1860 up into the Civil War....”

Interviewee(s): Nevin, David, 1927-2011
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-17

1846 “...Charles Scribner Jr., now a consultant with the publishing house his great-grandfather founded in 1846, he notes that other great writers with Scribner's included F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Jones, and Edith Wharton....”

Interviewee(s): Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-30

1846 “...We have a house where my three daughters and I live and where my studio is, which was built in 1846....”

Interviewee(s): Moser, Barry
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-27

1848 “...But what to do with all those well-thumbed catalog cards that dated back to, believe it or not, 1848, nearly 10 million of them....”

Interviewee(s): Henderson, James
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-13

1849 “...In 1849, Poe set out on the road to raise subscriptions for a new magazine he was hoping to publish....”

Interviewee(s): Silverman, Kenneth
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-01

1850s “...An American of the 1850s, William Walker, who led a contingent of mercenaries to Nicaragua....”

Interviewee(s): Houston, Robert, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-29

1850s “...Thomas King says the earliest book by a Native American was published in the 1850s, but books written by Indians were rare for the next 100 years....”

Interviewee(s): King, Thomas, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-05

1850s “...And there was even a penny dreadful, bestselling vampire called "Barney the Vampire" in the 1850s who just swept Europe....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-19

1850s “...It's not until the late 1850s, when you get mass-reproduced photographs and when you get photographs reproduced in woodblock prints in newspapers, that a photograph reaches a large enough audience to make a decisive difference....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-06

1851 “...Victor Navasky says The Southerly Quarterly said this about Herman Melville in 1851: Moby Dick is sad stuff....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-13

1853 “...One in 1853, one in 1857....”

Interviewee(s): Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-07

1855 “...That's Justin Kaplan, general editor of the new 16th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, first published by John Bartlett in 1855....”

Interviewee(s): Kaplan, Justin
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-18

1855 “...What are the floor plans of a slaughter house, and what about the river community, and what were the streets of Cincinnati like in 1855 and 1873, what do things cost, I mean, all of the details of the world....”

Interviewee(s): Morrison, Toni
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-27

1857 “...One in 1853, one in 1857....”

Interviewee(s): Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-07

1858 “...Then, there was this conclusion about Charles Dickens, in their review of London, 1858....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-13

1859 “...And published on September 5, 1859, it was the earliest known work of fiction by a black in America....”

Interviewee(s): Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-07

1859 “...It was published in 1859 and Gates says the author was an indentured servant named Harriet E. Wilson....”

Interviewee(s): Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-08

1859 “...A professor at Yale concludes that the first novel written by a black of the United States was published in 1859....”

Interviewee(s): Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-09

1860s “...This book begins in the 1860s and is over in the 1950s, so that much of the obstetrical procedure that's described in the book, it just isn't done anymore....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-08

1860 “...and he's involved in everything that has to do with that period of 1840 to 1860 up into the Civil War....”

Interviewee(s): Nevin, David, 1927-2011
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-17

1862 “...And it's true, I could have written, I think a very interesting historical account of the summer of 1862....”

Interviewee(s): Wicker, Tom
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-09

1863 “...And then after 1863 when Bartlett became a partner of the Boston publishing firm of Little Brown and Company, Little Brown took over Bartlett's and has been publishing it ever since....”

Interviewee(s): Kaplan, Justin
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-18

1865 “...The first printing was published in 1865, but withdrawn at Tenniel's request....”

Interviewee(s): Guiliano, Edward
Broadcast circa: 1982-01-19

1865 “...That was about Alice in Wonderland in 1865....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-13

1865 “...Usually horizontal and vertical lines, he listed his characters and their development between the years 1865 and 1871, their interrelationships, and the politics of the time....”

Interviewee(s): Jennings, Gary
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-24

1868 “...The New York World launched The Almanac in 1868, with 120 pages, including 12 pages of ads....”

Interviewee(s): Flatt, Jane D.
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-18

1868 “...From 1788 until 1868, Australia was a giant penal colony....”

Interviewee(s): Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-17

1870s “...When Mark Twain was writing Huckleberry Finn, in the 1870s, most of the storefronts that are still up on North Main St, were up then....”

Interviewee(s): Powers, Ron
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-30

1870s “...In the 1870s, says Lender, a movement called The Women's War launched the first organized protest against booze....”

Interviewee(s): Lender, Mark Edward, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1982-03-23

1870s “...A map of Cottonwood Falls, the county seat, drawn in the 1870s, shows the town has hardly changed....”

Interviewee(s): Heat Moon, William Least
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-23

1870s “...It was not till the 1870s that a man named Bertineau in France standardized that....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-07

1870 “...I began to work on a project, I was going to call American Blood, which was going to be a huge historical novel about the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States from about 1870 to the Vietnam War....”

Interviewee(s): Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-25

1871 “...Usually horizontal and vertical lines, he listed his characters and their development between the years 1865 and 1871, their interrelationships, and the politics of the time....”

Interviewee(s): Jennings, Gary
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-24

1872 “...The Bible of the publishing industry is Publisher's Weekly, founded in 1872, as a kind of collective catalog for the trade....”

Interviewee(s): Baker, John F., 1931-
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-09

1873 “...The population today is almost the same as it was in 1873....”

Interviewee(s): Heat Moon, William Least
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-23

1873 “...It's a private organization that's been in existence since 1873, which publishes mainly nonfiction and technical works relating to maritime affairs....”

Interviewee(s): Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-01

1873 “...What are the floor plans of a slaughter house, and what about the river community, and what were the streets of Cincinnati like in 1855 and 1873, what do things cost, I mean, all of the details of the world....”

Interviewee(s): Morrison, Toni
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-27

1875 “...Griffith was born in Kentucky in 1875....”

Interviewee(s): Schickel, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-19

1875 “...Publisher Jane Flatt says The Almanac temporarily closed down in 1875....”

Interviewee(s): Flatt, Jane D.
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-18

1878 “...As a young man, Sandburg, born to Swedish immigrants parents in Illinois in 1878, rode the rails, working his way across the nation to collect the American experience....”

Interviewee(s): Niven, Penelope
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-11

1878 “...The year 1878 saw a milestone in the history of photography, a classic photographic study of a running horse....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-07

1880s “...You know, back in the 1880s....”

Interviewee(s): Wambaugh, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-27

1880s “...There was a great deal of sickness, of course, in the 1880s, and we often forget about that....”

Interviewee(s): Hansen, Ron, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-09

1880s “...In the 1880s, when it was first published, it was banned as a earthy, disagreeable novel by the conservatives....”

Interviewee(s): Noble, William
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-19

1880 “...No word that appears in the book was originated later than 1880....”

Interviewee(s): Hansen, Ron, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-10

1881 “... 1881, the last days of the Jesse James gang....”

Interviewee(s): Hansen, Ron, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-09

1883 “...Constructed in 1883 as New York City's first co-op....”

Interviewee(s): Bard, Stanley
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-16

1883 “...Kafka was a German-speaking Jew, born in Prague in 1883....”

Interviewee(s): Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-03-02

1884 “...The Grolier Club, which has been around since 1884, promoting the art of the book, is staging an exhibition called Honored Relics....”

Interviewee(s): Nightkirk, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-09

1885 “...These were women who were born in 1885, for example, at the age of 15 in 1900 married men in their fifties, sixties, or seventies....”

Interviewee(s): Gurganus, Allan, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-25

1885 “...When Twain finished Huckleberry Finn in 1885, he wanted to include a long passage written for the book but published separately....”

Interviewee(s): Moser, Barry
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-28

1885 “...Harry Jr. tells us his father was born in Chicago in 1885 and later formed a magic act with his brother Pete....”

Interviewee(s): Blackstone, Harry
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-01

1885 “...Jelly Roll Morton, born of a New Orleans Creole family in 1885 helped to invent the music called jazz....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-23

1886 “...In 1886, Joseph Pulitzer became the publisher of The New York World and decided to revive The World Almanac as a compendium of universal knowledge mainly for journalists....”

Interviewee(s): Flatt, Jane D.
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-18

1886 “...In 1886, Joseph Pulitzer, who was then the publisher of the New York World paper here in New York, revived it and his goal was to make it, and this is a quote from him, "A compendium of universal knowledge....”

Interviewee(s): Hoffman, Mark (Mark S.)
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-18

1887 “...I discovered that in the year before, before the Ripper really got cranking, that was 1887, there were 500 inquests in Whitechapel, mostly on women who had been disemboweled and set on fire and generally, generally spoiled....”

Interviewee(s): West, Paul, 1930-2015
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-23

1889 “...There has never been a major biography of the Vienna-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who lived form 1889 to 1951....”

Interviewee(s): Duffy, Bruce
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-15

1889 “...The novel begins in 1889 and tells of two young Scots who brave a perilous journey in steerage to settle in the harsh world of Montana, as homesteaders....”

Interviewee(s): Doig, Ivan
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-16

1889 “...The San Francisco Examiner, 1889....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-13

1890s “...We published a long sequence of Krazy Kat in the last issue, as well as an autobiographical comic strip by Gustave Doré done in the 1890s....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa:

1890s “...He was the model for what a debonair, handsome young man would look like in the 1890s....”

Interviewee(s): Lubow, Arthur
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-07

1890 “...Whiteman was born in 1890 to musical parents in Denver....”

Interviewee(s): DeLong, Thomas A.
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-22

1890 “...The half-tone, which is what we have in our newspapers today, doesn't come into use, really, until about 1890....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-06

1890 “...The first book to include half-tone prints was How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis in 1890, a book with a social message....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-06

1890 “...We published a long sequence of Krazy Kat in the last issue as well as an autobiographical comic strip by Gustave Doré done in the 1890's....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-29

1892 “...But none had been published A, in the continental United States, and B, by an Afro- American woman, we thought, before 1892....”

Interviewee(s): Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-07

1892 “...Hunter's novel, Lizzie, is about the famous Lizzie Borden murder case in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892....”

Interviewee(s): Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-27

1892 “...This was the editor of the Atlantic Monthly in January 1892....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-13

1894 “...Born in Maryland in 1894, Hammett worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in Baltimore before serving in World War I. He became a writer when he couldn't live a life of action, when he was hospitalized for tuberculosis in his 20s at the time of the great flu epidemic in the first world war....”

Interviewee(s): Johnson, Diane, 1934-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-07

1895 “...It's not the Baker Street that it was in Victorian London, and first of all, the street is much longer than it was in say, 1895, it's been extended....”

Interviewee(s): Jeffers, H. Paul (Harry Paul), 1934-2009
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-18

1896 “...Several hundred thousand Armenians were butchered in Turkey in 1896, with a second wave of killings at the start of World War I....”

Interviewee(s): Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-10

1896 “...In 1896, that was just the first war Richard Harding Davis covered, and the years brought him ever increasing fame....”

Interviewee(s): Lubow, Arthur
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-07

1898 “...Born in Austria in 1898, Bemelmans immigrated to the U.S. as a youth and despite a heavy German accent, found himself in the U.S. Army during World War I. Bemelmans' widow, also named Madeline, recalls that her husband was once standing guard duty....”

Interviewee(s): Bemelmans, Madeleine
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-17

1899 “...He started with the Rover Boys in 1899, moving to the Bobbsey twins in 1904, Tom Swift in 1910, and in 1927, he created the Hardy Boys....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-23

1899 “...The movie being filmed in Stone's novel is based on a real book, an 1899 novel called The Awakening, by Kate Chopin....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-07

1900-2000 “...This is an astonishing irony because here is a man, not only writing at the absolute top of his form as a novelist, but also producing one of the monumental novels of 20th century American literature....”

Interviewee(s): DeMott, Robert J., 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-09

1900-2000 “...I try to write the books in a kind of, just before the turn of the century Russian vernacular....”

Interviewee(s): Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-20

1900-2000 “...H.G. Wells was a literary giant in the Britain of the early 1900s....”

Interviewee(s): West, Anthony, 1914-1987
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-20

1900-2000 “...Mencken hammered away mercilessly at the so-called, "Genteel Tradition," which had characterized American Literature in the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th Century....”

Interviewee(s): Fecher, Charles A.
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-06

1900-2000 “...The editor of Mencken's posthumous published diary, Charles Fecher, notes that Mencken was the most powerful and influential literary critic in the first half of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Fecher, Charles A.
Broadcast circa: 1991-03-12

1900-2000 “...I think they'd get a real good lesson in 20th century invective....”

Interviewee(s): Gingold, Alfred | Buskin, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-16

1900-2000 “...But it's the kind of language and the kind of style that would've been deemed pornographic at one point in the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Gertler, T.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-14

1900-2000 “...By the early 20th century, the Prohibition movement gained widespread popularity, spurred by patriotism stemming from World War I....”

Interviewee(s): Lender, Mark Edward, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1982-03-23

1900-2000 “...I think he'll stand with some of those other 20th century writers that didn't get Nobel Prizes like Tolstoy and Chekhov, and Proust and Joyce....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-11

1900-2000 “...People were looking to Capote's Answered Prayers as the great novel, the last half of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Grobel, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-03

1900-2000 “...The writer Upton Sinclair was one of the great muckrakers of the turn of the century, a man often confused with Sinclair Lewis....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-02

1900-2000 “...The famous turn of the century muckracker, Upton Sinclair, ran for governor of California in 1934 and lost in one of the worst smear campaigns in history....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-04

1900-2000 “...The writer, E. L. Doctorow, who's 1975 novel, "Ragtime", artfully blended real and imaginary events and people, in the early days of the 20th Century....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-05

1900-2000 “...Be a Jew, surely, in the 20th century, but I suspect at any time, is to be obsessed by the idea that everything in one way or another connects with the problem of being a Jew, and the problem of Jewish identity....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-16

1900-2000 “...Ralph Graves' latest book Share of Honor was published by Henry Holt, and Graves is working on a new novel about turn of the century Philippines....”

Interviewee(s): Graves, Ralph, 1924-2013
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-24

1900-2000 “...Because It Is My Heart, comes from a turn of the century poem by Stephen Crane....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-30

1900-2000 “...One of the most influential philosophers of the early 20th Century was a man named Ludwig Wittgenstein, who left his hometown of Vienna to study at Cambridge....”

Interviewee(s): Duffy, Bruce
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-14

1900-2000 “...There are those who consider Wittgenstein the most brilliant and original philosopher of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Duffy, Bruce
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-15

1900-2000 “...Kaplan decided that earlier editions of Bartlett's under-represented 20th century writers....”

Interviewee(s): Kaplan, Justin
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-19

1900-2000 “...Constantine puts Van Gogh in a variety of 20th century situations with subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle parodies of other artists, such as Haber, Warhol, and Picasso....”

Interviewee(s): Constantine, Greg, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-28

1900-2000 “...Chaim Potok is the highly regarded chronicler of Jewish life in 20th century America....”

Interviewee(s): Potok, Chaim
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-01

1900-2000 “...It's a bit distorted perhaps, it takes place in an imaginary setting, but many of the things that actually happen in this book are events that took place in the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Auster, Paul, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-02

1900-2000 “...He is an expert storyteller, and probably America's best storyteller of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Hayes, John Phillip, 1949-
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-26

1900-2000 “...Now well into his eighties, Graham Greene is one of the great writers of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Sherry, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-23

1900-2000 “...Novelist Howard Fast insists he is the most widely read writer of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1900-2000 “...I'm probably the most widely read serious novelist of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-09

1900-2000 “...What I wanna do is recreate American history in the 20th century through crime novels....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-10

1900-2000 “...It was called the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by Edward Stratemeyer who began writing before the turn of the century....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-23

1900-2000 “...Jean Auel gives her heroine, Ayla, and the other characters modern day speech because Auel does not believe the cavemen grunted, but communicated the same way as 20th century humans....”

Interviewee(s): Auel, Jean M.
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-15

1900-2000 “...George Jean Nathan was probably the premiere theater critic of the early 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-27

1900-2000 “...Writing in the 20th century is influenced by Poe even where the writers weren't conscious of it....”

Interviewee(s): Silverman, Kenneth
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-01

1900-2000 “...The third in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles is The Queen of the Damned, which continues the story of the vampire Lestat, a 20th century rock star....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-27

1900-2000 “...John Hartford illustrated the book with actual turn of the century photographs....”

Interviewee(s): Hartford, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-26

1900-2000 “...Despite his prejudices, which were primarily those of a young man at the turn of the century, and a farmer, one might say, although city people had the same prejudices, in the years before and even after the First World War, that despite all of this, Mr. Truman got rid of those prejudices, thank God, and he did it well before most Americans did....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-22

1900-2000 “...While he won the National Book Award for his novel the Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, and indeed his novel Falconer gave him a permanent place in 20th century literature, he was most at home with the short story....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1982-06-19

1900-2000 “...In his book Banned Films, co-author Roger Newman meticulously details the sensorship efforts directed at film making from the early 1900s to the demise of the sensor in the late 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Newman, Roger K.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-15

1900-2000 “...The good words are found in Dancing at the Rascal Fair, which traces the lives of Scottish immigrants, from their arrival as Montana homesteaders, through the early years of the 20th century....”

Interviewee(s): Doig, Ivan
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-18

1900-2000 “...Kafka's really the only figure in 20th century literature to have given his name to a word in the language....”

Interviewee(s): Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-03-02

1900-2000 “...While the tone of Article 19's report is dispassionate, Kevin Boyle notes that it's disturbing that so many nations in the 20th century still deprive their citizens of the most basic of freedoms....”

Interviewee(s): Boyle, Kevin (C. Kevin)
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-14

1900-2000 “...He devoted the latter years of his life to a work which went into five volumes and really into the 20th century remained the standard work on the life of Washington....”

Interviewee(s): Butler, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-04

1900-2000 “...In the 20th century, Americans began receiving their news in a way never before experienced. ...”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-14

1900-2000 “...My first four books were very much, all of them, concerned with Jewish identity in the 20th century, and the metaphysic of being a Jew who was struggling with the Jewish idea of God and the meaning of Jewishness....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-12

1900-2000 “...Mark Childress says he deliberately used a poetic cadence to evoke the early 1900s....”

Interviewee(s): Childress, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-06

1900-2000 “...I ran into an elderly gentleman in Canada who, hearing of my interest in Brazil, said, "You know, one of the most remarkable "double agents of the 20th century "was in Brazil in the 1930s, trying to start "a revolution for Stalin....”

Interviewee(s): Moss, Robert, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-14

1900-2000 “...Robert Moss is working on a series of books unrelated to 20th century espionage....”

Interviewee(s): Moss, Robert, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-15

1900-2000 “...Librarian Robert Nightkirk says the objects were owned by writers that lived in 17th century England up to the 20th century, with one living writer represented, J. B. Priestley....”

Interviewee(s): Nightkirk, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-09

1900 “...For example, The Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, in which Dorothy refuses to conform to the rules....”

Interviewee(s): Lurie, Alison
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-24

1900 “...The first volume of Copland's autobiography is called Copland 1900 Through 1942, written with Vivian Perlis, who met Copland when she was gathering material for a book about composer Charles Ives....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-25

1900 “...Vivian Perlis, who with the composer himself, has written Copland 1900 Through 1942....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-25

1900 “...Three thousand copies were printed in 1900 as a service for early French motorists....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-15

1900 “...Not only did they produce the first Guide in 1900, but shortly thereafter they went ahead and in conjunction with the French government, the permission of the French government, since there were no maps at all for France, they systematically numbered all the roads....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-15

1900 “...The president of the Hammond Map Company, Dean Hammond, says the firm's been a family owned business since 1900....”

Interviewee(s): Hammond, Dean
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-22

1900 “...These were women who were born in 1885, for example, at the age of 15 in 1900 married men in their fifties, sixties, or seventies....”

Interviewee(s): Gurganus, Allan, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-25

1900 “...You have one that's published around 1900....”

Interviewee(s): King, Thomas, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-05

1900 “...In 1900, seven years after she wrote the letter containing the story of Peter Rabbit, Potter thought I might make a book....”

Interviewee(s): Taylor, Judy, 1932-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-02

1900 “...A companion volume Copland 1900 through 1942 is now in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-01

1900 “...Wolfe, who was born in 1900, published his first novel in 1929, Look Homeward Angel....”

Interviewee(s): Schneider, Duane
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-29

1901 “...I had to admit to Trillin that until he told me, I didn't know that a Polled Hereford resulted from a mutation in 1901....”

Interviewee(s): Trillin, Calvin
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-03

1901 “...Polled Hereford's "An American idea since 1901....”

Interviewee(s): Trillin, Calvin
Broadcast circa:

1902 “...Born in Romania in 1902, John Houseman, over his long career, worked on a cattle ranch and an Argentine bank....”

Interviewee(s): Houseman, John, 1902-1988
Broadcast circa:

1902 “...A most impressive work about the great poet is the first of a two volume biography by Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941, published by Oxford University Press....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-20

1902 “...Arnold Rampersad, the author of "The Life of Langston Hughes 1902-1941" say's the young poet was working as a busboy in a Washington hotel when Vachel Lindsay, a famous poet of the day, walked in....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-21

1902 “...Arnold Rampersad, the author of "The Life of Langston Hughes Volume 1 1902-1941", now a paperback from Oxford University Press....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-21

1902 “...The tale of Peter Rabbit was an instant hit and has been reprinted 240 times since 1902....”

Interviewee(s): Taylor, Judy, 1932-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-03

1903 “...It seems fitting that the writer Irving Stone was born on Bastille Day, July 14th, 1903....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-11

1904 “...The first Hammond atlas was printed in 1904....”

Interviewee(s): Hammond, Dean
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-22

1904 “...Graham Greene was born in 1904 and is still writing....”

Interviewee(s): Sherry, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-24

1904 “...Born 20 minutes past 10, on the 2nd of October 1904 and still running hard....”

Interviewee(s): Sherry, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-25

1904 “...Ten years in the writing, Norman Sherry's The Life of Graham Greene covers the years between 1904 and 1939, and is now a Penguin paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Sherry, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-23

1904 “...He started with the Rover Boys in 1899, moving to the Bobbsey twins in 1904, Tom Swift in 1910, and in 1927, he created the Hardy Boys....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-23

1904 “...Born in 1904, Sidney Joseph Perelman was raised in Providence and educated at Brown....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-10

1904 “...Born in Chicago in 1904, William L. Shirer now lives in Lenox, Massachusets, turning out such graphic glimpses of history as The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 20th Century Journey, and his book of memoirs, The Nightmare Years, 1930 to 1940....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-06

1905 “...Ayn Rand was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1905....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-28

1907 “...Chicago started a movie censorship board in 1907....”

Interviewee(s): Newman, Roger K.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-16

1909 “...Born in Turkey in 1909 of Greek parents, Elia Kazan grew up in New Rochelle, New York....”

Interviewee(s): Kazan, Elia
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-16

1909 “...Set in 1909, Goran's novel is Mrs. Beautiful, the tale of a young woman from West Virginia who heads to the big city, Pittsburgh, where she fights her way from poverty by selling corsets, which allegedly have magical properties....”

Interviewee(s): Goran, Lester
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-31

1910s “...It may have been 1910s biggest tourist attraction....”

Interviewee(s): Hartford, John
Broadcast circa:

1910 “...Patrick McDonnell, co-author of the book, says Crazy Cat was introduced in 1910 as part of another comic strip...”

Interviewee(s): McDonnell, Patrick, 1956-
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-07

1910 “...They also had sign posts installed and then between 1910 and 1930, they produced a map of France in about 47 sections....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-15

1910 “...He started with the Rover Boys in 1899, moving to the Bobbsey twins in 1904, Tom Swift in 1910, and in 1927, he created the Hardy Boys....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-23

1910 “...Jay Parini was browsing in a book store when he came across a diary written by Leo Tolstoy's personal secretary during the last year of the great Russian novelist's life, 1910....”

Interviewee(s): Parini, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-01

1910 “...The story is set in 1910 at Tolstoy's estate south of Moscow....”

Interviewee(s): Parini, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-02

1910 “...It was 1910....”

Interviewee(s): Parini, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-03

1910 “...It's 1910 and...”

Interviewee(s): Parini, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-07

1910 “...At the beginning of the year in 1910, they had a pop rise on the Ohio River and she left Pittsburgh and got down to Willow Grove, West Virginia, and got caught out in a cornfield in the high water....”

Interviewee(s): Hartford, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-26

1910 “...It may have been 1910's biggest tourist attraction....”

Interviewee(s): Hartford, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-27

1910 “...has written a book for young people, Steamboat in a Cornfield, illustrated with turn of the century photographs, it's the true story of the steamboat Virginia, which in 1910 was left stranded in a West Virginia cornfield when the high water of the Ohio river suddenly receded....”

Interviewee(s): Hartford, John
Broadcast circa:

1910 “...They begin in 1910....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-22

1910 “...Robert Ferrell, editor of Dear Bess: Letters from Harry to Bess Truman 1910-1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-22

1910 “...Ferrell is the editor of Dear Bess, the letters Harry Truman wrote to his wife between 1910 and 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-23

1910 “...Robert Ferrell, editor of Dear Bess, Harry Truman's letters to his wife from 1910 to 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-23

1912 “...Studs Terkel was born in New York in 1912....”

Interviewee(s): Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-21

1912 “...Robert Frost went to England in 1912....”

Interviewee(s): Morton, Brian N.
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-17

1913 “...By 1913, Crazy Cat evolved into it's own script....”

Interviewee(s): McDonnell, Patrick, 1956-
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-07

1913 “...Ambrose Bierce vanished in Mexico in 1913 and was never heard from again....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-15

1913 “...Born in 1913, Irwin Shaw, became a star player on the first football team at Brooklyn College....”

Interviewee(s): Schnayerson, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-09

1913 “...Robertson Davies, whose latest book is called The Lyre of Orpheus, was born in Ontario in 1913 to a newspaper family....”

Interviewee(s): Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-02

1913 “...West decided to put the woman into Jung's life in 1913....”

Interviewee(s): West, Morris, 1916-1999
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-02

1914 “...Wells took up with a promising young writer named Rebecca West, and, in 1914, she bore Anthony West out of wedlock....”

Interviewee(s): West, Anthony, 1914-1987
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-20

1914 “...West, who was born in 1914, was the product of an affair between Wells and Rebecca West....”

Interviewee(s): West, Anthony, 1914-1987
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-21

1914 “...The characters were pretty much set in 1914....”

Interviewee(s): Cahn, Joseph M.
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-11

1914 “...Brendan Gill describes a hideous crime in 1914 at Taliesin, Wright's estate in Wisconsin, involving Wright's mistress, Mamah, and her children....”

Interviewee(s): Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-08

1914 “...Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1914, Howard Fast wrote 13 novels before he sold his first one at the age of 18....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1914 “...Originally built in 1914 as a music hall and burlesque house, which featured the likes of Fanny Brice and George Jessel, it was christened the Apollo in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Fox, Ted, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-27

1915 “...Born in Chicago in 1915, Ring Lardner, Jr. Landed a job on the now defunct New York Daily Mirror, but Holllywood called, and Lardner, at the age of 20, went to work for the motion picture producer, David O. Selznick....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-15

1915 “...The 1915 killings were of a quite different kind, because Turkey was in the war by then...”

Interviewee(s): Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-10

1915 “...In 1915, the Turks began a systematic massacre of the Armenians....”

Interviewee(s): Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-11

1915 “...And estimates vary as to how many were actually massacred in 1915 but it was well over a million....”

Interviewee(s): Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-11

1916 “...Broadcast news, its history is told by Edward Bliss, author of Now the News, Bliss says that as early as 1916, Lee de Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube, broadcast election returns....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-14

1916 “...Richard Harding Davis was 51 when he died in 1916....”

Interviewee(s): Lubow, Arthur
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-09

1917 “...By the time the amendment passed through Congress and was released to the states, in 1917, and then was ratified in 1919, became part of the Constitution in 1920, the vast majority of this country already was dry anyway....”

Interviewee(s): Lender, Mark Edward, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1982-03-23

1917 “...Christopher Cerf, chairman of the new Modern Library, says "the series was started in 1917 "by publisher Albert Boni....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-14

1917 “...The famous Modern Library, launched in 1917 began to fade with the advent of cheap paperback books....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-15

1917 “...It was 1917....”

Interviewee(s): MacNeil, Robert, 1931-
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-25

1917 “...Burgess was born in Manchester England in 1917....”

Interviewee(s): Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-28

1917 “...Born in Peking in 1917 of a Chinese father and a Belgian mother, Han Suyin has told of the turbulence of her life in a series of autobiographical memoirs....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-04

1917 “...I should have graduated in '17, but I'm one of those people that got all involved in the war....”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-09

1918 “...It starts in 1985 and works its way back to 1918 with much of it set in the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): Flagg, Fannie
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-03

1918 “...The stories start in 1985 and work their way back to 1918....”

Interviewee(s): Flagg, Fannie
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-23

1918 “...Marianne Wiggins sets her most recent novel, John Dollar, in Rangoon, 1918....”

Interviewee(s): Wiggins, Marianne
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-27

1918 “...While their worst enemies are often themselves, they must also fight drought, blizzards, fires, and the great flu epidemic of 1918....”

Interviewee(s): Doig, Ivan
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-16

1919 “...By the time the amendment passed through Congress and was released to the states, in 1917, and then was ratified in 1919, became part of the Constitution in 1920, the vast majority of this country already was dry anyway....”

Interviewee(s): Lender, Mark Edward, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1982-03-23

1919 “...The affair probably happened in 1919, a year after Scott had met Zelda but before their marriage, when he was 23 and Roslyn Fuller was 27....”

Interviewee(s): Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-25

1919 “...Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in 1919 and raised in Pasadena, California where he became a star athlete at Pasadena Junior College and UCLA....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-10

1919 “...Perhaps best known for The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing was born in Persia in 1919, where her English father worked for the Imperial Bank....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-25

1920s “...He became really worldwide in name in the 1920s....”

Interviewee(s): West, Anthony, 1914-1987
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-21

1920s “...Lardner is the son of one of the most famous writers of the 1920s....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-15

1920s “...A son of a famous writer and columnist of the 1920s, Ring Lardner Jr.'s career as a screenwriter was interrupted by prison and blacklisting because of his defiance of the House Committee on Un-American Activities....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-17

1920s “...This tradition of individualism which he founded as a thing in literature, lasted until the end of the 1920s with especially writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Dos Passos and Elliot and Pound, who spiritually and psychologically belonged to the same tradition of one might call, American individualism....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-11

1920s “...Especially in the 1920s, American writers converged on the French capital....”

Interviewee(s): Morton, Brian N.
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-17

1920s “...In the late 1920s, Hughes found a major supporter in an elderly white woman named Charlotte Mason, who liked to be called "Godmother."...”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-22

1920s “...Partly we were imitating the '20s, the Fitzgerald and Hemingway ethos....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1920s “...Set in the 1920s, it's about the telephone company's manhunt for a nearly blind boy who, like some of the phone freaks 40 years later, discovers how to tap into the phone lines by making mouth noises....”

Interviewee(s): McMahon, Thomas A., 1943-1999
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-03

1920s “...Little Egypt is the code name for an all but blind boy of the 1920s who leads a ring of other sightless youngsters in breaking into the phone lines....”

Interviewee(s): McMahon, Thomas A., 1943-1999
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-04

1920s “...Her unpublished writings of the 20s and 30s have been gathered in a book called The Early Ayn Rand, edited by Leonard Peikoff....”

Interviewee(s): Peikoff, Leonard
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-20

1920s “...McCrum notes that the first editorial director of Faber and Faber in the '20s was the poet T. S. Eliot....”

Interviewee(s): McCrum, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-22

1920s “...I mean, I had written them in my 20s, now I was in my 60s!...”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-20

1920s “...Back in the 20s, Modern Library books cost around 95 cents....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-15

1920s “...Whiteman's sound in the early 1920s was a syncopated, jazz-flavored dance beat....”

Interviewee(s): DeLong, Thomas A.
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-22

1920s “...After John Cheever died in 1982, a small publishing house, Academy Chicago, proposed publishing a collection of lesser known Cheever short stories, written from the '20s through the '60s....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-26

1920s “...When we think of the 1920s automatically the image of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald come to mind....”

Interviewee(s): Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-24

1920s “...Despite his intensive research into the Fitzgeralds, James Mellow is uncertain why the golden pair of the 1920s embarked on such a self-destructive path....”

Interviewee(s): Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-24

1920s “...The Big Little books of the late 1920s, 30s, and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): International Antiquarian Book Fair (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-25

1920s “...Dashiell Hammett's small body of work was written in the late 1920s and early '30s....”

Interviewee(s): Johnson, Diane, 1934-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-09

1920s “...It's a house built in the 1920s, but it's up on a bluff a few hundred feet high, which give it a very commanding view of the south side of the island for many miles around the side....”

Interviewee(s): Higgins, Jack, 1929-
Broadcast circa: 1987-05-07

1920s “...Leonard Mosley says that Walt Disney may have been a tyrant, but he was also a brilliant creator whose Mickey Mouse changed the fortunes of the struggling Disney Studio in the 1920s....”

Interviewee(s): Mosley, Leonard, 1913-1992
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-20

1920s “...I've spent most of my time in the last, up until my late 20s, but I really don't have any firm sense of roots....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-16

1920s “...In the late 1920s, novelist to be, Ayn Rand, left her native Russia and landed in Hollywood....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-05

1920s “...Nervous, young, finger-popping kids in their late teens or early 20s dominate the games....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-03

1920s “...Jimmy Breslin says Damon Runyon's 1920s were pure illusion....”

Interviewee(s): Breslin, Jimmy
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-06

1920s “...And can't you just hear them say, "Boy, I can't wait to join the roaring 20s....”

Interviewee(s): Breslin, Jimmy
Broadcast circa:

1920s “...In the 1920s, the censors suppressed James Joyce's "Ulysses" in part for a passage, in which a man is aroused by a woman who leans back on a swing....”

Interviewee(s): De Grazia, Edward, 1927-2013
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-21

1920 “...Those facts and thousands more are found in "American Chronicle," a year by year catalog of the major events in American life from 1920-1989....”

Interviewee(s): Gordon, Lois G.
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-01

1920 “...Lois Gordon sees 1920 when the chronicle begins as a pivotal year....”

Interviewee(s): Gordon, Lois G.
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-01

1920 “...In 1920 America became what we would call modern America....”

Interviewee(s): Gordon, Lois G.
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-01

1920 “...Their book American Chronicle is out in a second edition and lists in detail the events trivial and major, year by year between 1920 and 1989,...”

Interviewee(s): Gordon, Lois G.
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-02

1920 “...Bosse's 1983 novel, The Warlord, describes the China of the 1920's....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-28

1920 “...By the time the amendment passed through Congress and was released to the states, in 1917, and then was ratified in 1919, became part of the Constitution in 1920, the vast majority of this country already was dry anyway....”

Interviewee(s): Lender, Mark Edward, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1982-03-23

1920 “...Isaac Asimov was born in Russia in 1920....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-18

1920 “...The original Michelin Guide for France was 400 pages long, by 1920, 800 pages, and now, 1200 pages....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-15

1920 “...I had an earlier book, came out about two or three years ago, called The Mighty Music Box, which was a history of music and broadcasting, and throughout the book, which covered 1920 into the early 60s, Whiteman seemed to pop up in every chapter....”

Interviewee(s): DeLong, Thomas A.
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-22

1920 “...But James Mellow, in his book Invented Lives, makes it clear that the Fitzgeralds really died with the 1920's, when Zelda's madness took hold, and Scott became a drunk....”

Interviewee(s): Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-25

1920 “...In the 1920's The American Mercury was a staple on the college campus, the cultural force of its day....”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-28

1920 “...Richard Adams was born in 1920, a solitary child who lived a fantasy life, in which he created a kingdom out of his parent's country garden....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Richard, 1920-2016
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-14

1920 “...I graduated in 1920....”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-09

1920 “...Leo Rosenberg, who broadcast the results, the Cox Harding election in 1920, was still alive when I was researching this....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-17

1921 “...The only other time a community was bombed from the air occurred in Oklahoma in 1921 and it was a black community....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-21

1921 “...And put them in ketchup bottles lined up on the sill facing the sunlight late in the day, and with a sign on each one: "Summer 1921," "Summer 1922," "Summer 1923....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-20

1921 “...Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921, the daughter of commercial artists who moved to New York when Patricia was six....”

Interviewee(s): Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-01

1922 “...It was in Berlin in 1922 that Nabokov's father, a former leader of Russia's leading liberal party, was confronted by an assassin during a gathering of Russian exiles....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-10

1922 “...The peak circulation of the Jewish Daily Forward reached 220,000 in 1922....”

Interviewee(s): Weber, Simon
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-07

1922 “...Paul Watkins' recent novel is The Promise of Light, about a young American caught up in the Irish Rebellion in 1922....”

Interviewee(s): Watkins, Paul, 1964-
Broadcast circa: 1993-05-03

1922 “...Watkins' latest book, the Promise of Light, is set in Ireland in 1922 as the Irish Republican Army takes on the Brutal English Black and Tans....”

Interviewee(s): Watkins, Paul, 1964-
Broadcast circa: 1993-05-05

1922 “...Vance Bourjaily was born in Cleveland in 1922....”

Interviewee(s): Bourjaily, Vance, 1922-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-09

1922 “...And put them in ketchup bottles lined up on the sill facing the sunlight late in the day, and with a sign on each one: "Summer 1921," "Summer 1922," "Summer 1923....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-20

1923 “...A French Huguenot extraction, James Purdy was born in 1923 in a farmhouse in rural Ohio....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-14

1923 “...Born in rural Ohio in 1923, Purdy knew at an early age he wanted to write....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-12

1923 “...Born in rural Ohio in 1923, Purdy's first two privately printed books were hailed as works of genius, and a friend gave him this advice....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-01

1923 “...Heller was born in Coney Island in 1923....”

Interviewee(s): Heller, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-08

1923 “...Back in 1923, William Faulkner asked a small publishing house to print a book of his poems, the publisher told Faulkner he would have to subsidize the printing but the author said he didn't have the money....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-15

1923 “...Marc Riboud was born in France in 1923....”

Interviewee(s): Riboud, Marc
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-04

1923 “...And put them in ketchup bottles lined up on the sill facing the sunlight late in the day, and with a sign on each one: "Summer 1921," "Summer 1922," "Summer 1923....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-20

1923 “...Born in 1923, Dickey says he received little inspiration to write from his parents....”

Interviewee(s): Dickey, James
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-31

1923 “...Connecticut advertising executive Barrington Boardman's funny, anecdotal history of the US from 1923 to 1945 is called From Harding to Hiroshima....”

Interviewee(s): Boardman, Barrington
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-23

1924 “...Born as Truman Strecfus Persons in New Orleans in 1924 the writer Truman Capote, who adopted the last name of his step-father was largely abandoned by his parents and was raised in Alabama by aunts and female cousins....”

Interviewee(s): Clarke, Gerald, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-16

1924 “...Hughes' road as an artist was paved by the white writer and critic, Carl Van Vechten, who, about 1924, became interested in what was to become known as the Harlem Renaissance....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-20

1924 “...Vicki Goldberg, in her biography of Margaret Bourke-White, says Bourke-White married her college sweetheart in 1924, and, even though the marriage failed, she followed him to Cleveland....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-12

1924 “...It was called The American Mercury and it flourished between the years 1924 and 1929....”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-27

1924 “...The first four issues of The American Mercury, January through April 1924, have been reprinted in a large, facsimile edition by Garber Communications....”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-28

1924 “...Kafka wrote of the nighttime silence of Prague, but it wasn't until after his death in 1924 that his work was published, and the world learned a new word, Kafkaesque....”

Interviewee(s): Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-03-02

1924 “...For Kafka had tuberculosis of the larynx and died of relative obscurity at the age of 40 in 1924....”

Interviewee(s): Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-03-03

1924 “...Back in the US, in 1924, Aaron Copland composed his first major work a symphony for Oregon and orchestra....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-26

1925 “...In 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, high school teacher John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution....”

Interviewee(s): Fecher, Charles A.
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-07

1925 “...In 1925, religion and science clashed in the celebrated trial of a young high school teacher named Scopes, who defied Tennessee law and taught his students evolution....”

Interviewee(s): Fecher, Charles A.
Broadcast circa: 1991-03-13

1925 “...Herbert Gold was born in 1925 in a suburb of Cleveland....”

Interviewee(s): Gold, Herbert, 1924-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-26

1925 “...And the New Yorker has changed little since its founding in 1925....”

Interviewee(s): Gingold, Alfred | Buskin, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-17

1925 “...Gigi Mahon, author of The Last Days of The New Yorker says Harold Ross set the magazine apart when he founded it in 1925....”

Interviewee(s): Mahon, Gigi
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-20

1925 “...They were both born in 1925....”

Interviewee(s): Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-25

1925 “...He was born in 1925, in Sacred Heart Oklahoma, population 60....”

Interviewee(s): Hillerman, Tony
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-22

1925 “...Born in Pennsylvania in 1925, Russell Hoban, author of The Medusa Frequency and Ridley Walker, has lived in London for nearly 20 years....”

Interviewee(s): Hoban, Russell
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-10

1925 “...The invention of the 35 millimeter camera in 1925 launched a new era of news photography....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-10

1926 “...That's Charles Fecher, editor of the diary of H.L. Mencken In 1926 Mencken, who also edited The American Mercury, published a short story about a prostitute....”

Interviewee(s): Fecher, Charles A.
Broadcast circa:

1926 “...His early poems caught the attention of the white writer, Carl Van Vechten, and led to Hughes' first book, The Weary Blues, in 1926....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-18

1926 “...Agatha Christie, herself, made lurid headlines in 1926 when her car was found abandoned with no trace of Agatha....”

Interviewee(s): Morgan, Janet P.
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-18

1926 “...Peikoff says Ayn Rand's first story in English was written in 1926, the year she came to America from Russia where her father was a well off businessman....”

Interviewee(s): Peikoff, Leonard
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-19

1926 “...First one was in 1926....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-16

1926 “...Born in 1926, 30 miles from London near the mouth of the Thames river, Fowles and his family were forced to flee their home during World War II, because of heavy, Nazi air raids....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-07

1926 “...By 1926 there were the two volumes of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, and in 1939 four more volumes, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years....”

Interviewee(s): Niven, Penelope
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-13

1926 “...For a while, Dauber & Pine was on Fourth Avenue, then in 1926 it moved to 66 Fifth Avenue, where it has been ever since....”

Interviewee(s): Dauber, Murray
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-11

1926 “...Gardner was born in 1926 in an English mining community....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1926-2007
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-20

1926 “...He put together a board of judges, a board of editors, and started the club in 1926....”

Interviewee(s): Weeks, Brigitte
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-11

1926 “...An excellence that has been demonstrated by the Book of the Month Club since 1926....”

Interviewee(s): Weeks, Brigitte
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-12

1926 “...It was in 1926 and Irving Stone wanted to become a playwright....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-11

1926 “...In 1926, Irving Stone went to Paris, where he encountered the art of the Impressionist painters....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa:

1927 “...Grass was born in Danzig, Germany in 1927 but after the war, Danzig reverted to Poland and became Gdańsk....”

Interviewee(s): Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-09

1927 “...He started with the Rover Boys in 1899, moving to the Bobbsey twins in 1904, Tom Swift in 1910, and in 1927, he created the Hardy Boys....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-23

1927 “...I became a cub pilot in 1927 and continued on the Tennessee belt off and on 'til about 1938, and when she sank....”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-10

1928 “...Wiesel was born in 1928 in Hungary where the Jews who lived in his small village were unaware of the Nazi holocaust....”

Interviewee(s): Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-06

1929 “...In a major school exam in 1929, Sartre placed first....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-07

1929 “...But, Greene rallied, went on to Oxford and a brief newspaper career, and in 1929 wrote a well-received first novel....”

Interviewee(s): Sherry, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-24

1929 “...Heat Moon sat in the rumble seat of a 1929 model A Ford, which rattled down the main street to the courthouse lawn....”

Interviewee(s): Heat Moon, William Least
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-25

1929 “...It was called The American Mercury and it flourished between the years 1924 and 1929....”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-27

1929 “...But the real Mercury, the one that was influential and everything else, really died as an influence about 1929, by 1933...”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-28

1929 “...Adrienne Rich was born in 1929 in Baltimore, a city that straddles both North and South, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother....”

Interviewee(s): Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-18

1929 “...And a single panel in the October newspaper, 1929, sent me raving into the future....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-21

1929 “...My first novel came out in 1929, and that was called Mississippi, and that was the film by Universal with Lew Ayres, and then of course, I did Steamboat '...”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-09

1929 “...Robert McElvaine, Associate Professor of History at Millsaps College, looks at America from 1929 to 1941 in his book The Great Depression....”

Interviewee(s): McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-02

1929 “...Wolfe, who was born in 1900, published his first novel in 1929, Look Homeward Angel....”

Interviewee(s): Schneider, Duane
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-29

1930s “...Linda Henry says the recipes in the new edition are a lot more streamlined than those in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Henry, Linda (Linda J.)
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-14

1930s “...Kazin describes his young life in his biographical books, A Walker in the City, and Starting Out in the 30s....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-10

1930s “...Kazin says that by the Depression years of the '30s, a new literary culture developed based on groups and mass suffering....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-11

1930s “...Just as with novels that we can look back to that are Marxist novels of the 30s, or Marxist plays,...”

Interviewee(s): Howard, Maureen, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-10

1930s “...Julia is portrayed as a wealthy American woman who waged an underground struggle against the Nazis in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Wright, William, 1930-2016
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-13

1930s “...In his memoir, 'Boston Boy', Nat Hentoff tells of his boyhood in the 30s and 40s, and how he came to be such a maverick....”

Interviewee(s): Hentoff, Nat
Broadcast circa:

1930s “...I suppose in the early '40s or late '30s or whatever, we may be the last writers who had the old fashioned kind of apprenticeship where the writer worked as a shoe salesman and a plumber and a truck driver and wrote at night in a garret....”

Interviewee(s): Banks, Russell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-20

1930s “...He graduated from Williams, studied at the Yale Drama School, and in the early 1930s, launched a career as a stage and radio actor....”

Interviewee(s): Kazan, Elia
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-16

1930s “...Elia Kazan joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and was a reluctant member for 16 months....”

Interviewee(s): Kazan, Elia
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-16

1930s “...In the 1930s, he was a radical socialist poet....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-19

1930s “...While Langston Hughes became a political radical in the 1930s, he was in good company....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-20

1930s “...Norman Mailer was a teenager in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Mailer, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1992-10-19

1930s “...Begun by Christopher Morley and his pals in the 1930s, the Baker Street Irregulars, to this day, will not admit women....”

Interviewee(s): Jeffers, H. Paul (Harry Paul), 1934-2009
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-18

1930s “...In "World's Fair" Doctorow writes of a 1930s boyhood in the Bronx, much like his own....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-05

1930s “...The first one was True Confessions which was about the poor Irish in Los Angeles in the late 30's and early 40's....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-01

1930s “...Walter Winchell was a legendary columnist and broadcaster of the 30s and 40s, whose newspaper audience, at its peak, reached 50 million readers....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-20

1930s “...Michael Herr's novel, Walter Winchell, has the feel and pace of a 1930s movie and is great entertainment....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-20

1930s “...His latest novel, Walter Winchell, is based on the life of the powerful gossip columnist of the 30s, 40s, and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-22

1930s “...In the 1930s and 40s, the hottest table in town was table number 50 at the Stork Club....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-04

1930s “...Charles says the guide started almost accidentally by Clarence Lovejoy back in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Straughn, Charles T.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-03

1930s “...In the middle '30s or late '30s as I understand it, Christopher Moorely instituted a new policy which was simply to redo the entire book....”

Interviewee(s): Kaplan, Justin
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-18

1930s “...Her unpublished writings of the 20s and 30s have been gathered in a book called The Early Ayn Rand, edited by Leonard Peikoff....”

Interviewee(s): Peikoff, Leonard
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-20

1930s “...It gives Faber its prestigious today, the rock on which its reputation stands is based on the work that Eliot did in the '30s and '40s particularly....”

Interviewee(s): McCrum, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-22

1930s “...Richard Condon was a publicity man for Walt Disney and other movie producers in the 1930s and '40s....”

Interviewee(s): Condon, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-04

1930s “...In "Davita's Harp" the turbulence of the late 1930s, and the war years of the 1940s, are seen through the eyes of a young girl....”

Interviewee(s): Potok, Chaim
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-01

1930s “...On the wall in the Manhattan offices of New Directions is a framed doctor's prescription for James Laughlin written sometime in the late '30s or early '40s....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-05

1930s “...A poor student at Harvard but a precocious writer, Agee's first book was a volume of poetry in the early 1930s published while he was working as a writer for Fortune Magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Bergreen, Laurence
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-24

1930s “...We saved the Warsaw telephone books during the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Goldsmith, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-31

1930s “...Back in the 1930s, she had pretty heavy odds against her, and there weren't so many rules laid down, and there hadn't been so much affirmative action, and nobody was campaigning for ERA, and she had to make her way and invent the rules and really invent a life for herself....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-11

1930s “...We actually got out of the folding map business in the mid 30s, but we have four different road atlases....”

Interviewee(s): Hammond, Dean
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-22

1930s “...Then I had an uncle named Pedro who had once played with Xavier Cugat and Desi Arnaz back in the 30s and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-25

1930s “...That's a claim hard to argue with since Fast has churned out more than 80 plays and works of fiction and nonfiction since the early 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1930s “...There were turbulent times for Howard Fast through the '30s, '40s, and '50s, membership in the Communist Party, prison, blacklisting, and through it all, he stuck at his typewriter....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1930s “...If you lived in that time, if you lived in the 30s you could not grow up in New York, grow up poor in the depression without becoming in some sense involved with the communist party....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-06

1930s “...E.L. Doctorow was the fiction winner, whose novel, World's Fair, is the story of a boy growing up in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945- | Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-18

1930s “...There was no library, in fact, no books in the tiny Irish village in which Edna O'Brien grew up in the late 30s and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): O'Brien, Edna
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-15

1930s “...He was more of a show band in the 1930s when swing came in, so he was presenting a variety show, to some extent....”

Interviewee(s): DeLong, Thomas A.
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-22

1930s “...He was in the forefront of the paperback explosion in the late 1930s, bringing the Penguin Books to the US from England....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-21

1930s “...You have just a handful three or four that are published in the 30s....”

Interviewee(s): King, Thomas, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-05

1930s “...Born to East European immigrants who settled in Palestine in the early 30s, Amos Oz became a rebel with a cause....”

Interviewee(s): Oz, Amos
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-05

1930s “...Mary Cantwell's strongest memory of Bristol, RI, when she was growing up there as a child in the 30s and 40s, was its odor....”

Interviewee(s): Cantwell, Mary
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-24

1930s “...In this camp, Murrow came across people, whom he had known in Europe in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-21

1930s “...Amy Tan's stories move from China of the 1930s and the 40s to modern day America....”

Interviewee(s): Tan, Amy
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-21

1930s “...Throughout his book, Appel sprinkles pictures of movie theaters from the 30s and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Appel, Alfred
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-04

1930s “...S.J. Perelman was probably the most important American humorist of the 30s, 40S and 50s, maybe even of the 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-10

1930s “...There were a lot of laughs in the books and essays of S.J. Perelman, the famous humorist of the '30s, '40s, and '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-11

1930s “...William L. Shirer was a witness to the catastrophic events of the 1930s and writes about them in his memoir, The Nightmare Years....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-02

1930s “...In the late 1930s in Europe, William L. Shirer had yet to write such remarkable works of journalism as Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-03

1930s “...As Europe began to blaze in the 1930s, William L. Shirer was there, and writes of that era in his second volume of memoirs, The Nightmare Years....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-03

1930s “...The late 1930s, Hitler got his way, and war raged throughout Europe William L. Shirer and Edward R. Murrow were covering it for CBS....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-04

1930s “...Simon Brett notes that mystery writing has changed since the 30s and 40s when all that mattered was whodunit....”

Interviewee(s): Brett, Simon
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-10

1930s “...There were 500 bookstores in America in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Davis, Kenneth C.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-06

1930s “...Thomas Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain, experienced a religious conversion in the late 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Mott, Michael, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-11

1930s “...In his biography of Irwin Shaw, Michael Schnayerson says that as a young man in the 1930s, Shaw wrote radio serials, stage plays, screen plays, and finally broke in to The New Yorker with well-crafted short stories....”

Interviewee(s): Schnayerson, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-10

1930s “...For Shaw who had been considered one of The New Yorker's absolute top short story writers in the late 30s and throughout the 40s, this is an extremely hurtful, wounding turn of events....”

Interviewee(s): Schnayerson, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-11

1930s “...H. Paul Jeffers is the author of Murder on Mike, the second thriller featuring private eye Harry MacNeil who hangs his hat at the Onyx, a former speakeasy on Manhattan's 52nd Street of the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Jeffers, H. Paul (Harry Paul), 1934-2009
Broadcast circa:

1930s “...Machine Dreams focuses on a single family from the 1930s through the 70s with each family member coming forward to reveal the sorrows and joys of his or her life....”

Interviewee(s): Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-21

1930s “...The Big Little books of the late 1920s, 30s, and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): International Antiquarian Book Fair (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-25

1930s “...Dashiell Hammett's small body of work was written in the late 1920s and early '30s....”

Interviewee(s): Johnson, Diane, 1934-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-09

1930s “...Originally built in 1914 as a music hall and burlesque house, which featured the likes of Fanny Brice and George Jessel, it was christened the Apollo in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Fox, Ted, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-27

1930s “...Novelist Sidney Sheldon was 17 when during the 1930s, he went to Hollywood to try his hand at writing movies....”

Interviewee(s): Sheldon, Sidney
Broadcast circa: 1987-05-20

1930s “...Schulberg had been a youthful member of the party in the 30s at a time when membership appeared to be the right thing to do....”

Interviewee(s): Schulberg, Budd
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-13

1930s “...Born in New York in 1930s, Stanley Elkin was raised in Chicago....”

Interviewee(s): Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-29

1930s “...Born in England and now an American citizen, Leonard Mosley has had a love affair with his adopted nation since the early 1930s when he arrived at the age of 17....”

Interviewee(s): Mosley, Leonard, 1913-1992
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-22

1930s “...In the 1930s, Leonard Mosley drove across America in a Model A4 and reaching a small town, would knock on a door asking the family for shelter for the night....”

Interviewee(s): Mosley, Leonard, 1913-1992
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-22

1930s “...Burman, now in his late 80s, already had a reputation in the 1930s as the author of Mississippi, Steamboat 'Round the Bend and Blow...”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-10

1930s “...She recalls the photographs of the 30s and 40s when the people seemed so gaunt....”

Interviewee(s): Arnold, Eve
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-23

1930s “...Helen Forrest broke into show business in the 1930s, doing singing radio commercials....”

Interviewee(s): Forrest, Helen
Broadcast circa: 1982-07-03

1930s “... When Helen Forrest broke into show business in the 1930s, the color bar was absolute....”

Interviewee(s): Forrest, Helen
Broadcast circa: 1982-07-05

1930s “...Abe Schechter, head of news at NBC, became a kind of one man news bureau of the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-14

1930s “...Broadcast news had to invent itself and came of age by the late 30s, and early 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-14

1930s “...One of his most controversial poems, "Goodbye Christ" embraced the Soviet Union in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-25

1930s “...In the concluding volume of his biography of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad says that Hughes was a frequent victim of racism, as he traveled during the 30s, 40s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-21

1930s “...During the 1930s, West joined the Christian Brothers and spent eight years as a monk....”

Interviewee(s): West, Morris, 1916-1999
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-04

1930s “...After his death there were 11 editors over the years and the Almanac declined in the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): Hale, Judson D.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-17

1930s “...The reason that I emphasize so much movies during the 1930s, is that this was the preeminent form of popular culture during the decade....”

Interviewee(s): McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-02

1930s “...Among the top five books in the 1930s, in terms of sales, you find The Grapes of Wrath, you find books by Pearl Buck, books that are trying to say that there's a better way of doing things....”

Interviewee(s): McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-02

1930s “...I remember the first time I went to a chess tournament, which wasn't until I was in my 30s...”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-03

1930s “...He in a white brim hat, she in the round, close fitting headwear of the 1930s....”

Interviewee(s): McFadden, Cyra
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-28

1930s “...The 1930s gave Cyra McFadden a colorful childhood....”

Interviewee(s): McFadden, Cyra
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-29

1930s “...I ran into an elderly gentleman in Canada who, hearing of my interest in Brazil, said, "You know, one of the most remarkable "double agents of the 20th century "was in Brazil in the 1930s, trying to start "a revolution for Stalin....”

Interviewee(s): Moss, Robert, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-14

1930s “...Richard Condon moved to Ireland and other European countries to write after a longs stint as a publicity man for Walt Disney in the late 30s and early 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Condon, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-01

1930s “...That was a scene from the movie in the 1930s, based on H.G. Well's novel The Invisible Man....”

Interviewee(s): Saint, H. F. (Harry F.)
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-17

1930s “...The Invisible Man, filmed in the 1930s with Claude Rains....”

Interviewee(s): Saint, H. F. (Harry F.)
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-12

1930s “...Back in the '30s they were all along the side of the road, and they always came in five installments....”

Interviewee(s): Baker, Russell, 1925-
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-02

1930 “...One of the best-selling books of all times is the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, published since 1930 by the Meredith Corporation in Des Moines....”

Interviewee(s): Henry, Linda (Linda J.)
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-14

1930 “...The Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, since 1930, a kitchen classic, now in it's 10th edition....”

Interviewee(s): Henry, Linda (Linda J.)
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-15

1930 “...In his book, An American Procession, Kazin writes of the major literary figures, whose greatest work came between 1830 and 1930....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-11

1930 “...In his book, An American Procession, Kazin looks at the century he considers most crucial in American Literature, 1830 to 1930, ushered in by Ralph Waldo Emerson, closed by William Faulkner....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-15

1930 “...H.L. Mencken began a diary in 1930 when he was 50 years old....”

Interviewee(s): Fecher, Charles A.
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-08

1930 “...Norman Mailer was a teenager in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): Mailer, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-02

1930 “...It starts in 1985 and works its way back to 1918 with much of it set in the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): Flagg, Fannie
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-03

1930 “...Davita is a young girl growing up in the 1930's and early 40's, who was somewhat out of place as she excels while attending a Jewish school....”

Interviewee(s): Potok, Chaim
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-02

1930 “...They also had sign posts installed and then between 1910 and 1930, they produced a map of France in about 47 sections....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-15

1930 “...Edward Stratemeyer died in 1930, but not before he conceived the Nancy Drew series....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-23

1930 “...Nancy Axelrad wrote many of the Nancy Drew books under the name Carolyn Keene, and says Nancy has changed since her start in 1930....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-24

1930 “...By 1930 Scott had become a drunk....”

Interviewee(s): Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-24

1930 “...In the 1930's, there were only 500 bookstores in the entire United States....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-20

1930 “...The author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Berlin Diary, and The Nightmare Years, his life as a European correspondent from 1930 to 1940....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-05

1930 “...It would be beside the point, my purpose is not to try and recreate accurately and what life was like for a real butler in England in the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-23

1930 “...Cole was one of the founders of the screenwriter's guild in the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-16

1930 “...Former longtime writer and editor at CBS and professor emeritus at American University, Bliss says it was Edward Clauber, right hand man to CBS founder William Paley, who recognized that rival NBC had all but locked up the major entertainers of the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-15

1930 “...The cover of Cyra McFadden's memoir Rain or Shine shows a handsome man and woman, each of the distinctive head wear of the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): McFadden, Cyra
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-25

1930 “...The Invisible Man, filmed in the 1930's with Claude Rains....”

Interviewee(s): Saint, H. F. (Harry F.)
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-18

1931 “...Like the narrator of his novel, World's Fair, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx in 1931....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-03

1931 “...Griffith built his own studio, went broke, and by 1931, at the age of 56, had stopped directing altogether....”

Interviewee(s): Schickel, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-19

1931 “...One of the novels in William Kennedy's Albany Cycle is called Legs about the gangland killing of the bootlegger Jack Legs Diamond in Albany in 1931....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-06

1931 “...And in 1931 was summoned to Hollywood to work on the screenplay for the Marx Brothers film, Monkey Business....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-10

1931 “...Morrison who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1978 book Song of Solomon was born in 1931 in the working class town of Lorain, Ohio....”

Interviewee(s): Morrison, Toni
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-28

1932 “...I was born on the 25th of May, 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut, the fifth of six children of Dorothy Frances Burns and Richard Edwin Dunne....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-15

1932 “...My mother changed the name in 1932, when I was born, because she didn't want to be an Italian, either....”

Interviewee(s): Talese, Gay
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-12

1933 “...So Fast cut off The Immigrant with the year 1933, picking up the story with the next novel in the series, Second Generation, this time focusing on the Lovette daughter, Barbara....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-04

1933 “...Ayn Rand's first novel was the semi-autobiographical We the Living, Peikoff says it was written in 1933, but not published until 1936....”

Interviewee(s): Peikoff, Leonard
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-20

1933 “...Howard Fast's first published novel was Two Valleys in 1933, a romantic love story that was bought by the publisher of the Dial Press....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1933 “...With over 80 books since 1933, Howard Fast says he never rereads his work....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-09

1933 “...The Post was rescued from bankruptcy by Eugene Meyer in 1933....”

Interviewee(s): Kelly, Tom
Broadcast circa: 1983-08-01

1933 “...Nathan left the magazine after a year but Mencken continued on as editor until 1933....”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-27

1933 “...But the real Mercury, the one that was influential and everything else, really died as an influence about 1929, by 1933...”

Interviewee(s): Russell, Richard K.
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-28

1933 “...Born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933, Reynolds Price grew up in a religious family, but, as a young man, became disillusioned with the church because of its failure to commit to the civil rights movement....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-07

1933 “...Robert Coover was born in 1933 in Charles City, Iowa, where his father was a newspaper man....”

Interviewee(s): Coover, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-03

1933 “...That was in 1933....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-01

1933 “...I was in a position as one of the organizers of the Screenwriter's Guild, early in 1933, where already just by organizing that, before I was a member of the Communist Party, I was known as a Red, who was trying to take over Hollywood through the trade unions....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1982-02-18

1933 “...In 1933, Richard Mellon was on his deathbed and he summoned his brother....”

Interviewee(s): Boardman, Barrington
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-23

1934 “...Upton Sinclair was a utopian and a socialist who, in 1934, launched a campaign for governor of California with a book....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-02

1934 “...Upton Sinclair was seen by many people in 1934 as a dangerous rabble-rouser....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-02

1934 “...When the muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair won the Democratic nomination for governor of California in 1934, the movie industry almost had apoplexy....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-03

1934 “...Greg Mitchell says 1934 saw the first full-fledged negative campaign against a candidate....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-03

1934 “...The famous turn of the century muckracker, Upton Sinclair, ran for governor of California in 1934 and lost in one of the worst smear campaigns in history....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-04

1934 “...There are parallels between the campaigns of Ross Geroux and Upton Sinclair in 1934....”

Interviewee(s): Mitchell, Greg, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-04

1934 “...Wolf says the irregulars held their first black tie dinner in 1934, and things haven't changed much since then....”

Interviewee(s): Wolf, Julian
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-17

1934 “...It was 1934, after a year at Harvard, James Laughlin who later became the founder and publisher of New Directions books got bored so on with a letter of introduction....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-06

1934 “...Back in 1934, Ezra Pound told James Laughlin he would never be a poet....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-09

1934 “...1934, Fortune Magazine sent Margaret Bourke-White out to the Dust Bowl, and she then took pictures of the suffering farmers, the dying cattle, the dust everywhere....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-12

1934 “...In "Peru" the young Gordon's victim is named Steven Michael Adinoff, born 1934, died 1940, to whom the novel is dedicated....”

Interviewee(s): Lish, Gordon
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-06

1934 “...Because of its vivid sexuality, Henry Miller's masterpiece Tropic of Cancer, published in Paris in 1934, had to be smuggled into the United States until 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa:

1934 “...A young Yale graduate named Charles Altschul of Stamford, Connecticut, decided to reopen the Overbrook Press, begun by his grandfather in 1934....”

Interviewee(s): Altschul, Charles
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-19

1934 “...Shirer first saw Hitler at a Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, in 1934....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-05

1934 “...The powerful photographic image of Clark Gable in the 1934 film...”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-09

1934 “...It's said undershirt sales dropped 75% in 1934....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-09

1934 “...In January, 1934, after burlesque was outlawed and also coincidentally at the same time as the black migration to Harlem had moved down to 125th Street, the Apollo adopted a format of black entertainment....”

Interviewee(s): Fox, Ted, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-27

1934 “...Cole's membership in the Communist Party begain in 1934, when as an officer of the screenwriter's guild, he was visited by two party members....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1982-02-18

1934 “...It was in 1934 after 17 rejections that stone published his famous biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh, Lust for Life....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-11

1934 “...Now in his 80s Stone published his first book in 1934....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-12

1934 “...But Stone notes that Vincent Van Gogh was also virtually unknown in America until after Stone's 1934 book about him....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-13

1934 “...The names Vincent Van Gogh and Irving Stone were both virtually unknown in America until 1934....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa:

1935 “...Over the next four years, David Nevin pounded out his first novel on a 1935 Underwood typewriter....”

Interviewee(s): Nevin, David, 1927-2011
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-16

1935 “...Selected Poems, 1935 to 1985, I think poetry should be fun....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-09

1935 “...Miłosz was a programmer for Polish National Radio from 1935 and 1939, became active in the Polish Resistance during World War Two, and later served in the diplomatic service, but he severed his ties to the Polish government and came to America, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Miłosz, Czesław
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-07

1935 “...Murrow joined CBS in 1935, after working with the Institute of International Education....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-14

1935 “...D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall, England, in 1935....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, D. M.
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-13

1935 “...Round the Bend in '35 with Will Rogers....”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-09

1936 “...After he did that series of articles called The Harvest Gypsies, which appeared in October of 1936, he then decided he wanted to write a novel....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-19

1936 “...Ayn Rand's first novel was the semi-autobiographical We the Living, Peikoff says it was written in 1933, but not published until 1936....”

Interviewee(s): Peikoff, Leonard
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-20

1936 “...James Laughlin's relationship with the poet Ezra Pound led to the creation of New Directions in 1936, a story that we'll examine in the next four reports....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-05

1936 “...The magazine folded but the authors that Laughlin got to know through Ezra Pound contributed to an anthology called New Directions 1936....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-07

1936 “...In 1936 there were some very good writers who were outside the commercial system and who were experimenting....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-07

1936 “...The publishing house of New Directions has gone in its own well, direction, thanks to James Laughlin who founded the firm in 1936....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-09

1936 “...In 1936, Life Magazine sent her to photograph The Fort Peck Dam, which appeared on the cover of the magazine's first issue....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-12

1936 “...And they traveled down South in the summer of 1936, and quite promptly fell in love with one another, although he was married and had three children....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-13

1936 “...Piercy was born in Detroit in 1936....”

Interviewee(s): Piercy, Marge
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-09

1936 “...He's a homicide inspector for the Berlin Criminal Police, taken into the SS in 1936, overnight, not by choice....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-16

1936 “...Schnayerson in a definity biography says, "The late Irwin Shaw burst onto the literary scene "in 1936 with his anti-war play, Bury the Dead....”

Interviewee(s): Schnayerson, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-09

1936 “...Ayn Rand's first book, We the Living, a semi-autobiographical story of a young woman trying to survive after the Russian Revolution, was published in 1936 and was, at the time, a publishing disaster....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-29

1936 “...Clifton Fadiman, who wrote that for the New Yorker in 1936....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-13

1936 “...Robert Moss sets Carnival of Spies in the Rio de Janeiro of 1936....”

Interviewee(s): Moss, Robert, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-14

1936 “...The latest thriller by spy novelist Robert Moss is also about espionage, but Carnival of Spies is set in 1936 and is based on a real-life double agent working out of Rio....”

Interviewee(s): Moss, Robert, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-15

1937 “...Sometime in 1937 he began what he later called The Oklahomams....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-19

1937 “...Born in 1937, Wolff describes his father as a con man and bad check artist who was always one step ahead of the law....”

Interviewee(s): Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-28

1937 “...But one day in Berlin in 1937, Shirer got a telegram from a man who worked for CBS, Edward R. Murrow....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-02

1937 “...We essentially lived in our car, which was a 1937 Packard....”

Interviewee(s): McFadden, Cyra
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-28

1938 “...John Steinbeck spent five months in 1938 methodically writing his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath....”

Interviewee(s): DeMott, Robert J., 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-09

1938 “...The final entry in the journal came on October 26th, 1938....”

Interviewee(s): DeMott, Robert J., 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-09

1938 “...My closest brother fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was killed in 1938 in Spain....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-16

1938 “...He collaborated with Orson Welles on the 1938 Halloween radio drama...”

Interviewee(s): Houseman, John, 1902-1988
Broadcast circa:

1938 “...In May, 1938, John Steinbeck sat down and, in long-hand, wrote the novel that became The Grapes of Wrath....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-19

1938 “...John Steinbeck spent five months in 1938 methodically writing his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-21

1938 “...The final entry in the journal came on October 26th, 1938....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-21

1938 “...So in 1938, he came out with a book called...”

Interviewee(s): Straughn, Charles T.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-03

1938 “...And if you had period cars you could shoot 1938 and have no trouble at all....”

Interviewee(s): Shagan, Steve
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-01

1938 “...He found himself in Vienna in March of '38, at the time Hitler was about to take over Austria....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-14

1938 “...It's hard to get a geographic fix on the writer, Ishmael Reed, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1938....”

Interviewee(s): Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-15

1938 “...If you read the Hartford papers of the year 1938, I think you'd find some interesting material....”

Interviewee(s): Tryon, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-23

1938 “...Back in 1938 young Welsh born Dick Francis never dreamed he would be a best selling mystery writer....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-08

1938 “...Born in 1938 in a town southeast of London, Forsyth's first job was as a cub reporter on a provincial newspaper....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-25

1938 “...I became a cub pilot in 1927 and continued on the Tennessee belt off and on 'til about 1938, and when she sank....”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-10

1938 “...Her big break came in 1938 when she was heard by Artie Shaw....”

Interviewee(s): Forrest, Helen
Broadcast circa: 1982-07-03

1938 “...She joined Artie Shaw in 1938....”

Interviewee(s): Forrest, Helen
Broadcast circa: 1982-07-04

1938 “...recordings Jelly made in 1938....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-23

1939 “...The Grapes of Wrath was an instant best-seller in 1939 and kept on selling....”

Interviewee(s): DeMott, Robert J., 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-09

1939 “...When John Steinbeck's story of migrant workers, The Grapes of Wrath, was published in 1939, it sparked immediate controversy, and part of it was over its ending, in which a young woman gives the milk from her breast to a starving man....”

Interviewee(s): DeMott, Robert J., 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-10

1939 “...The series began chronologically in 1939 and it's now moved up to 1942....”

Interviewee(s): Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-20

1939 “...In 1939, Brian Aldiss went to a Woolsworths store in England and bought a copy of Astounding Science Fiction magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson), 1925-
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-02

1939 “...Dan Wakefield was a kid and living in Indianapolis in 1939 when his rich uncle gave him and his parents airplane tickets to fly to the New York World's Fair....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1939 “...Steinbeck's widow Elaine believes the book is as relevant to readers today as it was in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa:

1939 “...The Grapes of Wrath was an instant bestseller in 1939 and kept on selling....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-21

1939 “...When John Steinbeck's story of migrant workers, The Grapes of Wrath, was published in 1939, it sparked immediate controversy....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-23

1939 “...That was in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-18

1939 “...And yes, there have been changes in Isaac Asimov's work since he sold his first story in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-22

1939 “...In a 1988 interview, Asimov recalled that he was 19 when he sold his first science fiction story in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1939 “...And they had a very stormy, rather tempestuous courtship, and eventually she did marry him in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-13

1939 “...That was in 1939, and the assignment Lou Stoumen gave himself was to photograph Times Square....”

Interviewee(s): Stoumen, Louis Clyde
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-10

1939 “...While the Times Square area today is a sometimes appalling panorama of bombed out junkies and trash, Lou Stoumen isn't so sure that its spirit is much different than it was in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Stoumen, Louis Clyde
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-10

1939 “...Ten years in the writing, Norman Sherry's The Life of Graham Greene covers the years between 1904 and 1939, and is now a Penguin paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Sherry, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-23

1939 “...Smith knows New Mexico, the birthplace of his mother who met Smith's father at the New York World's Fair in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Broadcast circa:

1939 “...By 1926 there were the two volumes of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, and in 1939 four more volumes, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years....”

Interviewee(s): Niven, Penelope
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-13

1939 “...Tom Kelly worked briefly as a copy boy for the Washington Post in 1939 and he's been a Post watcher ever since....”

Interviewee(s): Kelly, Tom
Broadcast circa: 1983-08-01

1939 “...Susan's mother, Mary, married John Cheever in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-24

1939 “...Coincidentally, Pocketbooks also started publishing paperback in the U.S. the same time as Penguin, July 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-20

1939 “...Miłosz was a programmer for Polish National Radio from 1935 and 1939, became active in the Polish Resistance during World War Two, and later served in the diplomatic service, but he severed his ties to the Polish government and came to America, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Miłosz, Czesław
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-07

1939 “...Davis says reading habits were changed overnight in 1939, when publisher Robert de Graff launched pocketbooks, the paperbacks with the pictures of the kangaroo in the corner....”

Interviewee(s): Davis, Kenneth C.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-06

1939 “...Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, but grew up in the Canadian wilderness....”

Interviewee(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-20

1939 “...Murder on Mike is set in 1939 and MacNeil investigates the killing of a popular radio star....”

Interviewee(s): Jeffers, H. Paul (Harry Paul), 1934-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-22

1939 “...In Murder on Mike, Jeffers's tough-talking hero investigates a killing in Studio 6B at the old Blue Network at Radio City in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Jeffers, H. Paul (Harry Paul), 1934-2009
Broadcast circa:

1939 “...The Enchanter" was written in 1939 when Vladimir Nabokov was 40 and a Russian exile....”

Interviewee(s): Nabokov, Dmitri
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-25

1939 “...Dmitri Nabokov has translated into English a novella called "The Enchanter" that his father wrote in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Nabokov, Dmitri
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-26

1939 “...Seeing the world of 1939 through the eyes of a small town, Wisconsin eight year old boy....”

Interviewee(s): McPherson, William
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-11

1939 “...Drabble was born in Sheffield, England in 1939 to a family with a literary orientation....”

Interviewee(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-09

1939 “...Ivan Doig was born in northern Montana in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Doig, Ivan
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-17

1939 “...When he repudiated a poem, his poem Goodbye Christ in 1939, I think he intended to set behind him quite a few of the radical pieces he had done and to return as he said, to Negros' nature and love....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-20

1939 “...his uncle bought The Old Farmer's Almanac in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Hale, Judson D.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-17

1939 “...He was teaching school in New York in 1939, when CBS hired Schoenbrun to monitor short-wave broadcasts from around the world....”

Interviewee(s): Schoenbrun, David
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-26

1940s “...Robert Creeley had always known he wanted to be a writer, and in the 1940s and 50s, he determinedly sent his stories out....”

Interviewee(s): Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-25

1940s “...Writer Ring Lardner Jr. is a soft spoken man whose demeanor belies the fear of struggle he had with the government of the 1940s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-16

1940s “...By the '40s and '50s, specially after the second World War, technology and the extraordinary transformation of our world by technology, made literature seem less central, less important than it had been....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-11

1940s “...Ann Charters, editor of The Portable Beat Reader, says the term Beat was coined by jazz musicians in the '40s....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-11

1940s “...The Beat generation of the 1940s and 50s had to start somewhere, and it started with Harold Huncke....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-12

1940s “...The Curious George books for very young children native to the early 1940s, are the creation of H.A and Margaret Rey....”

Interviewee(s): Shalleck, Alan J.
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-01

1940s “...But just as he did in the 1940s, Richard Schickel still gets a thrill out of going to the movies....”

Interviewee(s): Schickel, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-07

1940s “...In the 1940s, Wright developed the first of what he called his Usonian Houses....”

Interviewee(s): Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-10

1940s “...In his memoir, 'Boston Boy', Nat Hentoff tells of his boyhood in the 30s and 40s, and how he came to be such a maverick....”

Interviewee(s): Hentoff, Nat
Broadcast circa:

1940s “...I suppose in the early '40s or late '30s or whatever, we may be the last writers who had the old fashioned kind of apprenticeship where the writer worked as a shoe salesman and a plumber and a truck driver and wrote at night in a garret....”

Interviewee(s): Banks, Russell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-20

1940s “...It's a classic case of where the death penalty should not have been imposed because Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were up to their eyeballs in espionage from the mid 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Conners, Bernard F.
Broadcast circa: 1983-05

1940s “...In the 1940s exile Russian writer, Vladimir Nabokov, began work on a novel titled, The Kingdom by the Sea....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-18

1940s “...The first one was True Confessions, which was about the poor Irish in Los Angeles in the late 30s and early 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-15

1940s “...Walter Winchell was a legendary columnist and broadcaster of the 30s and 40s, whose newspaper audience, at its peak, reached 50 million readers....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-20

1940s “...His latest novel, Walter Winchell, is based on the life of the powerful gossip columnist of the 30s, 40s, and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-22

1940s “...In the 1930s and 40s, the hottest table in town was table number 50 at the Stork Club....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-04

1940s “...Back in his home town of Wichita, Kansas his father worked for the Santa Fe Trailways bus company, and then, in the 1940s, Lehrer's dad struck out on his own....”

Interviewee(s): Lehrer, James
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-29

1940s “...Sure, I love the old movies from the '40s where everything is great....”

Interviewee(s): Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-27

1940s “...It gives Faber its prestigious today, the rock on which its reputation stands is based on the work that Eliot did in the '30s and '40s particularly....”

Interviewee(s): McCrum, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-22

1940s “...Although the magazine's stories appeared in the 1940s, the three books, Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation came out 51, 52 and 53....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-20

1940s “...Richard Condon was a publicity man for Walt Disney and other movie producers in the 1930s and '40s....”

Interviewee(s): Condon, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-04

1940s “...In "Davita's Harp" the turbulence of the late 1930s, and the war years of the 1940s, are seen through the eyes of a young girl....”

Interviewee(s): Potok, Chaim
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-01

1940s “...Davita is a young girl growing up in the 1930's and early 40's, who was somewhat out of place as she excels while attending a Jewish school....”

Interviewee(s): Potok, Chaim
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-02

1940s “...Whereas back in the 40s, most people sort of, they put in a brown wrapper....”

Interviewee(s): Anthony, Piers
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-30

1940s “...On the wall in the Manhattan offices of New Directions is a framed doctor's prescription for James Laughlin written sometime in the late '30s or early '40s....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-05

1940s “...She did not learn how to use a light meter until sometime well into the 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-12

1940s “...In the crowd scenes, the men of the 1940s all wear hats and suite and ties, and somehow, look different....”

Interviewee(s): Stoumen, Louis Clyde
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-10

1940s “...Then I had an uncle named Pedro who had once played with Xavier Cugat and Desi Arnaz back in the 30s and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-25

1940s “...There were turbulent times for Howard Fast through the '30s, '40s, and '50s, membership in the Communist Party, prison, blacklisting, and through it all, he stuck at his typewriter....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1940s “...Kimball had been a member of the American Newspaper Guild when he worked on the newspaper of PM in the early 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Kimball, Penn
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-03

1940s “...While William Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization for E.T. he wrote the screenplay for the recent movie The Book of Love based on his coming of age novel of the 40s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Kotzwinkle, William
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-08

1940s “...The writer, James Ellroy, has an obsession with the Los Angeles of the 1940s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1940s “...Ellroy says his books are more than crime stories, but a detailed tableau of L.A. in the 40s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1940s “...For writer H. B. Gilmour, growing up in her grandparents' home in Brooklyn in the 1940s was almost like living on a farm....”

Interviewee(s): Gilmour, H. B. (Harriet B.), 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-29

1940s “...There was no library, in fact, no books in the tiny Irish village in which Edna O'Brien grew up in the late 30s and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): O'Brien, Edna
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-15

1940s “...Mary Cantwell's strongest memory of Bristol, RI, when she was growing up there as a child in the 30s and 40s, was its odor....”

Interviewee(s): Cantwell, Mary
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-24

1940s “...Amy Tan's stories move from the China of the 1930s and '40s to modern-day America....”

Interviewee(s): Tan, Amy
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-15

1940s “...High school yearbook pictures easily point out the would-be movie queens, the girls who trim their hair like Veronica Lake in the 40s, like Farrah Fawcett in the 80s....”

Interviewee(s): Appel, Alfred
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-04

1940s “...Throughout his book, Appel sprinkles pictures of movie theaters from the 30s and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Appel, Alfred
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-04

1940s “...There were a lot of laughs in the books and essays of S.J. Perelman, the famous humorist of the '30s, '40s, and '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-11

1940s “...It was a very atmospheric film made in the 1940s, a sequel to the original Dracula....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-18

1940s “...A.E. Hotchner has been hobnobbing with celebrities ever since the 1940s and writes about them in his book "Choice People."...”

Interviewee(s): Hotchner, A. E.
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-30

1940s “...Simon Brett notes that mystery writing has changed since the 30s and 40s when all that mattered was whodunit....”

Interviewee(s): Brett, Simon
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-10

1940s “...For Shaw who had been considered one of The New Yorker's absolute top short story writers in the late 30s and throughout the 40s, this is an extremely hurtful, wounding turn of events....”

Interviewee(s): Schnayerson, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-11

1940s “...The late 1940s, Ved Mehta was 15, blind, a Hindu from India, all but friendless in the strange new culture of Arkansas, where he attended the State School for the Blind in Little Rock....”

Interviewee(s): Mehta, Ved, 1934-
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-22

1940s “...Returning to his native land, Gage started reconstructing the events of that deadly period of the 1940s....”

Interviewee(s): Gage, Nicholas
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-18

1940s “...The Big Little books of the late 1920s, 30s, and 40s....”

Interviewee(s): International Antiquarian Book Fair (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-25

1940s “...He says the Big Little books changed their names to the Better Little books in the 1940s, and Rickin says there's no rhyme or reason as to who buys them today....”

Interviewee(s): International Antiquarian Book Fair (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-25

1940s “...In many of his early letters, Truman makes degrading and derogatory remarks about Blacks, Jews, and Orientals, but his voice changed by the 1940s....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-22

1940s “...The story begins in the 1940s with the family on the way to California, where the father is to teach at Berkeley....”

Interviewee(s): Nixon, Cornelia
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-25

1940s “...A particularly brutal sex murder in the Los Angeles of the 1940s captured the attention of mystery writer James Ellroy....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-11

1940s “...The Black Dahlia captures the voices of the cops and the crooks and the atmosphere of Los Angeles in the 1940s and is now in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-11

1940s “...She's been turning out novels of suspense since the 1940s....”

Interviewee(s): Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-02

1940s “...Fast, the author of more than 70 books was a member of the Communist Party in the '40s and '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-31

1940s “...I've discussed it, for example, with Anthony Burgess, who inclines to a similar view that it's just a kind of satire on life in austerity ridden Britain in the late 1940's....”

Interviewee(s): Calder, Nigel, 1931-2014
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-31

1940s “...She recalls the photographs of the 30s and 40s when the people seemed so gaunt....”

Interviewee(s): Arnold, Eve
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-23

1940s “...The comic book industry flourished through the 1940s, but by the 50s, things changed....”

Interviewee(s): Obadiah, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-19

1940s “...Of allowing myself to tap certain feelings associated with early childhood and things I remember from the late '40s and early '50s in Milwaukee....”

Interviewee(s): Straub, Peter, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-03-27

1940s “...He says that as he gets older, he becomes increasingly interested in the Midwest of the 1940s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Just, Ward S.
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-01

1940s “...Broadcast news had to invent itself and came of age by the late 30s, and early 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-14

1940s “...In the concluding volume of his biography of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad says that Hughes was a frequent victim of racism, as he traveled during the 30s, 40s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-21

1940s “...Their ideas in the late 1940s and early 50s were often misguided....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-05

1940s “...Bemelmans' widow, also named Madeleine, recalls the 1940s, when her husband went to Hollywood as a screenwriter....”

Interviewee(s): Bemelmans, Madeleine
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-18

1940s “...But Bernstein reveals in Loyalties that his father and mother were Communist Party members in the 1940s, but they were hardly subversive....”

Interviewee(s): Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-18

1940s “...In his memoir, Loyalties, Carl Bernstein writes of the Communist witch hunts of the 1940s and '50s and the ordeal of his politically active parents....”

Interviewee(s): Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-16

1940s “...Paul Theroux says the world has in fact been in a continual state of war since the 1940s, and that worldwide terrorism is a manifestation of that war....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-14

1940s “...Publisher's Weekly began running capsule book reviews in the 1940s and editor in chief, John Baker, says the reviews are now the most important part of the magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Baker, John F., 1931-
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-09

1940s “...Later in the '40s, Copland did what is perhaps his most well-known score, and that is The Heiress, well-known because he won an Oscar for that....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-27

1940s “...Also in the '40s, Copland wrote a fanfare which became one of his best known works. ...”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-27

1940s “...Adams' novel, Superior Women, reflects her own days at Radcliffe in the 1940s as she traces the lives of five classmates....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Alice, 1926-1999
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-18

1940s “...In her novel Superior Women, Alice Adams traces the lives of five Radcliffe graduates over four generations, beginning in the 1940s....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Alice, 1926-1999
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-19

1940s “...Richard Condon moved to Ireland and other European countries to write after a longs stint as a publicity man for Walt Disney in the late 30s and early 40s....”

Interviewee(s): Condon, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-01

1940s “...Well, as late as the late 40s, and ealy 50s, in this country, we still had formidable institutions threatening the freedom of publishers and authors....”

Interviewee(s): De Grazia, Edward, 1927-2013
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-02

1940 “...But Richard Schickel says the communists were often successful in planting propaganda in the films of the 1940's....”

Interviewee(s): Schickel, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-09

1940 “...When he brought his family to the United States in 1940, Nabokov continued his butterfly research....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-10

1940 “...The magazine stories appeared in the 1940's, the three books Foundation, Foundation Empire and Second Foundation came out '51, '52, and '53....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1940 “...In Davita's Harp, the turbulence of the late 1930's and the war years of the 1940's are seen though the eyes of a young girl....”

Interviewee(s): Potok, Chaim
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-21

1940 “...In 1940, he celebrated his sixth birthday on a boat en route to the United States....”

Interviewee(s): Anthony, Piers
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-05

1940 “...I was born in 1940, so those memories must go back 1944 or 1945, or maybe a little bit after the war....”

Interviewee(s): Heyen, William, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-01

1940 “...Heyen was born in 1940....”

Interviewee(s): Heyen, William, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-02

1940 “...The concluding picture in Lou Stoumen's collection shows a young couple riding a northbound subway train out of a Times Square station one night in 1940....”

Interviewee(s): Stoumen, Louis Clyde
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-10

1940 “...F. Scott Fitgerald was 44 when he died of a heart attack in 1940....”

Interviewee(s): Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-25

1940 “...In "Peru" the young Gordon's victim is named Steven Michael Adinoff, born 1934, died 1940, to whom the novel is dedicated....”

Interviewee(s): Lish, Gordon
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-06

1940 “...London, 1940, Edward R. Murrow....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-15

1940 “...It was a very atmospheric film made in the 1940's, a sequel to the original Dracula....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-26

1940 “...I remember there was a big tank battle, for example, in the battle of France in June, '40....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-03

1940 “...The author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Berlin Diary, and The Nightmare Years, his life as a European correspondent from 1930 to 1940....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-05

1940 “...One day in 1940, William Paley, who ran CBS, phoned Shirer in London, and asked that he line up Winston Churchill for a radio talk....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-05

1940 “...Born in Chicago in 1904, William L. Shirer now lives in Lenox, Massachusets, turning out such graphic glimpses of history as The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 20th Century Journey, and his book of memoirs, The Nightmare Years, 1930 to 1940....”

Interviewee(s): Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-06

1940 “...The book is called Dutch Treat, because that's Leonard's nickname, bestowed on him because of a 1940's baseball player called Emil Dutch Leonard....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-26

1940 “...Probably a book is cheaper today than it was back in 1940 or '50....”

Interviewee(s): Meyer, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-02

1941 “...The cookbook senior writer Linda Henry says the plaid cover was adopted in 1941 after a food editor spotted a bolt of red gingham fabric in a department store....”

Interviewee(s): Henry, Linda (Linda J.)
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-14

1941 “...In 1941 Lardner broke out of B pictures and won an Oscar for his screenplay,...”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-15

1941 “...Arnold Rampersad's meticulous biography is called The Life of Langston Hughes, 1902- 1941, now in paperback from Oxford University Press....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-20

1941 “...A Fortune assignment led to his classic 1941 study of Southern sharecroppers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men....”

Interviewee(s): Bergreen, Laurence
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-25

1941 “...Having worked with British intelligence during World War I, Donovan was the logical choice of President Roosevelt to head the new office of Coordinator of Information in 1941....”

Interviewee(s): Brown, Anthony Cave
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-08

1941 “...Kenneth Silverman, author of the first biography of Poe since 1941, says Poe's literary career began in Baltimore....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa:

1941 “...By 1941, pocketbook sales had reached eight and a half million copies, and other publishers jumped on the bandwagon....”

Interviewee(s): Davis, Kenneth C.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-06

1941 “...Thomas Merton declared his two vocations in 1941....”

Interviewee(s): Mott, Michael, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-11

1941 “...Sammy Glick is the antagonist in Budd Schulberg's 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?...”

Interviewee(s): Schulberg, Budd
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-12

1941 “...Schulberg made good use of his Hollywood background when in 1941 he published a classic novel of ruthless ambition, What Makes Sammy Run....”

Interviewee(s): Schulberg, Budd
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-13

1941 “...Larry Woiwode was born in North Dakota in 1941, where his father was an high school administrator....”

Interviewee(s): Woiwode, Larry
Broadcast circa: 1988-10-10

1941 “...Rick Obadiah, head of First Publishing of Chicago, creator of the new additions, says Albert Kanter launched the original Classic Comics in 1941....”

Interviewee(s): Obadiah, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-19

1941 “...That's Rick Obadiah of Chicago's First Publishing, the outfit behind the new editions of Classics Illustrated, which started life as Classic Comics in 1941....”

Interviewee(s): Obadiah, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-21

1941 “...Volume two begins in 1941 on the black poet's 39th birthday....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-23

1941 “...In his new biography of Hughes, Arnold Rampersad says that in 1941 the poet was in the hospital with gonorrhea, desperately in need of money, when he begged his publisher, Knopf, for a loan....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-24

1941 “...Robert McElvaine, Associate Professor of History at Millsaps College, looks at America from 1929 to 1941 in his book The Great Depression....”

Interviewee(s): McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-02

1942 “...The series began chronologically in 1939 and it's now moved up to 1942....”

Interviewee(s): Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-20

1942 “...Encouraged by critic Carl Van Doren to write a book about American Literature, Alfred Kazin produced his first in 1942, On Native Grounds....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-10

1942 “...Raised in an academic atmosphere, novelist John Irving, was born in 1942, in New Hampshire....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-10

1942 “...Harrison, who first met Wilder in 1942, saw the late novelist and playwright....”

Interviewee(s): Harrison, Gilbert A.
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-07

1942 “...The first volume of Copland's autobiography is called Copland 1900 Through 1942, written with Vivian Perlis, who met Copland when she was gathering material for a book about composer Charles Ives....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-25

1942 “...Perlis says when volume two comes out, it will pick up Copland's life from 1942 on....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-25

1942 “...Vivian Perlis, who with the composer himself, has written Copland 1900 Through 1942....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-25

1942 “...She and Erskine Caldwell were divorced in 1942....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-13

1942 “...I grew up wondering about motivation, character motivation, because the only thing we ever talked about was why so-and-so had done such-and-such back in 1942....”

Interviewee(s): Smiley, Jane
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-24

1942 “...That was an enormous amount of money to a 16- year old kid in 1942....”

Interviewee(s): Murray, William, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-05

1942 “...Raban was born in 1942, a vicar's son....”

Interviewee(s): Raban, Jonathan
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-05

1942 “...In one month in 1942, the Nazis sunk 48 ships in the Gulf of Mexico, which we don't really realize, you know, that they penetrated that deep into our waters....”

Interviewee(s): Childress, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-05

1942 “...Erica Jong was born in 1942 in New York....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-30

1942 “...A companion volume Copland 1900 through 1942 is now in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-01

1943 “...When he refused military service in 1943, he doesn't just write his letter to the local draft board, he writes it to President Roosevelt himself and says, "As one member of an old family "Writing to another member of an old American family, "I hereby tell you I am not gonna fight....”

Interviewee(s): Hamilton, Ian, 1938-2001
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-18

1943 “...Winchell's power peaked in 1943 and '44....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-21

1943 “...I bought my first rare book in 1943, in an attic on Oakland Park Avenue in Columbus....”

Interviewee(s): Matthews, Jack
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-13

1943 “...My parents came up from Oriente Province in 1943....”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-24

1943 “...Finally in 1943 there was Citizen Tom Paine....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-06

1943 “...When the film Guadalcanal Diary, which still plays on the late show from time to time, very popular war movie of 1943, appeared in movie houses all across the country, the marines set up a recruiting booth in each first run theater and they actually got 12,000 young fellows to sign up in the marines just because of Guadalcanal Diary....”

Interviewee(s): Appel, Alfred
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-04

1943 “...Censorship prevailed during the Second World War, as well, but in 1943, the government thought the home front was too complacent and allowed the publication of a photograph of dead Americans on a beach....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-08

1943 “...Novelist Ayn Rand had always been fascinated with the battle between collectivism and individualism, a theme she explored in her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-06

1943 “...The book begins in whatever the hell year it is, 1943-1944, Jack Gance is a young boy, 8-year-old boy, on this flat lake in Wisconsin, fishing....”

Interviewee(s): Just, Ward S.
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-24

1943 “...Edward Bliss joined CBS News in 1943 as a writer and editor and later worked with the legendary newscaster, Edward R. Murrow....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-16

1943 “...The second volume of Copland's autobiography, Copland Since 1943, is a companion piece to an earlier volume....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-26

1943 “...But Copland survived the critics, as we read in Copland Since 1943, by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis, published by St. Martin's Press....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-26

1943 “...That's Vivian Perlis, who worked with Aaron Copland on two books of autobiography, the second volume of which covers the years since 1943....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-27

1943 “...In Aaron Copland's concluding work of autobiography, Copland: Since 1943, the great composer shatters a few myths about his best known work, Appalachian Spring....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-28

1943 “...St. Martin's Press published both volumes of Copland's autobiography, the latest, Copeland since 1943. ...”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-02

1943 “...The Aaron Copland story is told in Copland Since 1943, now a St. Martin's Press trade paperback, as is the earlier volume....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-29

1943 “...Copland Since 1943 is now a St. Martin's Press Trade paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-30

1943 “...The two volumes of Aaron Copland's autobiography, the most recent, Copland: Since 1943, are packed with facts about the composer's music, travels, and acquaintances....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-31

1943 “...The latest, Copland: Since 1943, both now in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-31

1943 “...When he was in the military in 1943....”

Interviewee(s): Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson), 1925-
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-22

1944 “...After George Herriman's death in 1944, his remains were scattered over Monument Valley in Arizona....”

Interviewee(s): McDonnell, Patrick, 1956-
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-07

1944 “...Fortitude turned out to be an Allied scheme to fool the Germans about where the 1944 invasion of France was to be, complete with double agents and phony messages broadcast on the BBC....”

Interviewee(s): Collins, Larry
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-14

1944 “...Maus, which is a trade paperback, published by Pantheon ends on the day the Nazis forced Spiegelman's parents into Auschwitz in 1944....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-20

1944 “...Winchell's power peaked in 1943 and '44....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-21

1944 “...I was born in 1940, so those memories must go back 1944 or 1945, or maybe a little bit after the war....”

Interviewee(s): Heyen, William, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-01

1944 “...Tennessee Williams was from 1944 to 1961, not only our most controversial playwright, but our most successful, our most poetic, our most highly compensated....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-03

1944 “...Talese writes that in 1944, after the allies bombed southern Italy Gay's father angrily burst into his room and destroyed Gay's collection of model military planes....”

Interviewee(s): Talese, Gay
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-13

1944 “...On a day in 1944, Gay was throwing a baseball around when he should've been working inside his father's tailor shop....”

Interviewee(s): Talese, Gay
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-11

1944 “...It was in the Navy in 1944 that Hunter began to write....”

Interviewee(s): Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-26

1944 “...In March 1944, the 16-year-old Elie Wiesel, his family and the other Jews in his village were sent to a place they had never heard of, Auschwitz....”

Interviewee(s): Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-06

1944 “...The book begins in whatever the hell year it is, 1943, 1944....”

Interviewee(s): Just, Ward S.
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-28

1944 “...We have a senior judge now who is on the board now, has been there since 1944, Clifton Fadiman....”

Interviewee(s): Weeks, Brigitte
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-12

1944 “...In 1944, the FBI apprehended a German spy on Long Island that had landed from a u-boat evidently, and in his pocket was the 1944 edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac....”

Interviewee(s): Hale, Judson D.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-17

1944 “...Vivian Perlis who cowrote the book says, "Copeland was commissioned to compose "a ballet for the dancer Martha Graham in 1944....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-28

1944 “...Christopher Hope, who was born in South Africa in 1944, now writes about his native land from a distance....”

Interviewee(s): Hope, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1982-02

1945 “...Earlier, the University of California Press published Creeley's collective poems, 1945-1975....”

Interviewee(s): Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-23

1945 “...This is Smyth's General Account, a first edition of the first published account of the development of the atomic bomb, 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Baden, Michael M. | Lowry, George
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-17

1945 “...My next book will be called Occupation, and this takes the same characters and puts them into the fall of 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Toland, John
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-11

1945 “...Sartre studied in Berlin, taught high school philosophy, was a German prisoner of war, the leader of a French resistance movement, an exponent of of existentialism, and by 1945 was at the center of French intellectual life....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-07

1945 “...On October 29th, 1945, Sartre delivered his famous lecture on existentialism....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-08

1945 “...But biographer Annie Cohen-Solal says that from 1945 to 1950 Sartre had an intense relationship with a woman he met in New York, a woman Cohen-Solal identifies only as Dolores V. Cohen-Solal says Sartre broke with Dolores in the way that he ended most of his affairs....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-09

1945 “...Lovejoy's is now in it's 16th edition and has been owned by the same family since 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Straughn, Charles T.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-03

1945 “...It wasn't until he got out of the service in 1945 that Lovejoy published the guide that is much like the one you see today....”

Interviewee(s): Straughn, Charles T.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-03

1945 “...I was born in 1940, so those memories must go back 1944 or 1945, or maybe a little bit after the war....”

Interviewee(s): Heyen, William, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-01

1945 “...When I look back, I think when I was 17, 18 years old, this is '45, '46, I was really cynical....”

Interviewee(s): Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-08

1945 “...One of the bad guys is a boatswains's mate, who is not unlike a boadswain's mate in 1945, who served on the same ship as 17 year old sailor, Thomas Fleming....”

Interviewee(s): Fleming, Thomas J.
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-03

1945 “...The hero of Martin Cruz Smith's newest novel, Stallion Gate, is an Indian army sergeant, who finds himself involved in the events leading to the testing of an atom bomb in 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-02

1945 “...Smith dropped his earlier project and began work on a novel called Stallion Gate, set in New Mexico in 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-03

1945 “...In December of 1945, I was participating in the occupation of Japan...”

Interviewee(s): Bourjaily, Vance, 1922-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-10

1945 “...Sandburg's famous biography of Lincoln changed his economic circumstances and the poet moved with his family from the Midwest to the South in 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Niven, Penelope
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-14

1945 “...Ballantine founded Bantam Books in 1945, and Ballantine Books in 1952, both now part of the Radom House empire....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-21

1945 “...As a US Intelligence Officer, Weitz had been at the Dachau Concentration Camp shortly after it's liberation in 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Weitz, John
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-16

1945 “...Connecticut advertising executive Barrington Boardman's funny, anecdotal history of the US from 1923 to 1945 is called From Harding to Hiroshima....”

Interviewee(s): Boardman, Barrington
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-23

1945 “...Stone has made his home in Beverly Hills since 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-13

1945 “...He was just over 20 when he was freed in 1945....”

Interviewee(s): Clavell, James
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-19

1946 “...Despite Anthony West's spirited support of his father, H.G. Wells on his death bed in 1946 told his son, "I just don't understand you."...”

Interviewee(s): West, Anthony, 1914-1987
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-20

1946 “...Karl Shapiro was a young man just out of the military when his book V-letter and Other Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1946....”

Interviewee(s): Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-30

1946 “...The youthful Karl Shapiro got off to a smashing start as a poet, winning a Pulitzer in 1946....”

Interviewee(s): Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-01

1946 “...In 1946 when Ernest Hemingway was 47 years old, he began work on a book that was not published during his lifetime....”

Interviewee(s): Jenks, Tom, 1950-
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-01

1946 “...CBS is the one that brought me up here originally, back in 1946 when I got out of the Army....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-21

1946 “...His subsequent novels did better, but it wasn't until after the publication of Freedom Road in 1946 that Fast earned enough money to write full time....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1946 “...In 1946, Penn Kimball's resume had shaped up rather well....”

Interviewee(s): Kimball, Penn
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-02

1946 “...and then all of a sudden, one day in the mail, in a plain brown wrapper, came these 99 documents, which represented an investigation made in the year 1946, which ended up defining me as a national security risk....”

Interviewee(s): Kimball, Penn
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-02

1946 “...When I look back, I think when I was 17, 18 years old, this is '45, '46, I was really cynical....”

Interviewee(s): Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-08

1946 “...Back in 1946 he was sent by Collier's Magazine to do some clown drawings, and Ballantine signed up with the circus as a clown....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Bill, 1911-1999
Broadcast circa: 1982-05

1946 “...For three seasons starting back in 1946, Ballantine himself was a clown....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Bill, 1911-1999
Broadcast circa: 1982-05

1946 “...It came out in 1946, just as the GIs were returning from the war and the baby-boom had begun....”

Interviewee(s): Davis, Kenneth C.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-07

1946 “...Jimmy Breslin, in his recent biography of Damon Runyon, says Runyon developed throat cancer, which first took his voice, and then his life, in 1946....”

Interviewee(s): Breslin, Jimmy
Broadcast circa:

1946 “...As late as 1946, ... John Sumner succeeded in totally suppressing a great novel by Edmund Wilson called Memoirs of Hecate County....”

Interviewee(s): De Grazia, Edward, 1927-2013
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-20

1947 “...As one of the Hollywood 10, screenwriter Lardner was sentenced to prison for defying the House of American Activities Committee in 1947....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-16

1947 “...So many writers go back to their experiences for the first novel, and this was about the experience of getting electricity on the Northeast Georgia farm that I grew up on, in 1947....”

Interviewee(s): Kay, Terry
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-29

1947 “...Until Piers Anthony picked up the March 1947 edition of Astounding Science Fiction, he had not known that the genre existed....”

Interviewee(s): Anthony, Piers
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-05

1947 “...The House Un-American Committee, in 1947, subpoenaed our records, the names, subpoenaed the names of every contributor....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-07

1947 “...That experience was the basis of his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Tales of the South Pacific published in 1947. ...”

Interviewee(s): Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-16

1947 “...The L.A. quartet spans 1947 to 1959 in Los Angeles....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1947 “...I remember it vividly, Don, that on publication day, which was I believe August 15th of 1947, I woke up expecting the world to be different....”

Interviewee(s): Bourjaily, Vance, 1922-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-10

1947 “...Despite his law career, Auchincloss has written nearly 40 books since 1947, the most famous of which is "The Rector of Justin"....”

Interviewee(s): Auchincloss, Louis
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-28

1947 “...His first novel, a reworking of the one rejected by Scribner's, was Indifferent Children, published in 1947....”

Interviewee(s): Auchincloss, Louis
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-29

1947 “...But Sir, from 1947-1951 I was somewhere....”

Interviewee(s): Friedman, Bruce Jay, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-24

1947 “...In 1947, after serving in the army in Italy, Edward Abbey made good his pledge to live in the promised land....”

Interviewee(s): Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-05

1947 “...When Ray Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, was published in 1947, he sent a copy to the great radio producer Norman Corwin....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-22

1947 “...Black Dahlia begins, the first, is the first novel in a quartet, which will explore Los Angeles from the years 1947, the year of the Black Dahlia murder case, through to 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-06

1947 “...A fictional account of the sensational unsolved murder of a young woman in Los Angeles in 1947....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-10

1947 “...Helprin was born in Manhattan in 1947....”

Interviewee(s): Helprin, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-19

1947 “...On April 15, 1947, the son of a sharecropper stepped to the plate for the Brooklyn Dodgers and changed both baseball and American society forever....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-10

1947 “...Had he not succeeded in 1947, there's no telling who would have tried another black....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-10

1947 “...America was two separate societies in 1947, black and white....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-11

1947 “...Despite the abuse, Jackie Robinson was named Rookie of the Year in 1947....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-11

1947 “...All of Allen Ginsberg's poetry has been collected into an 800 page volume, Collected Poems 1947 To 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-18

1947 “...A lifetime of work by Allen Ginsberg has been gathered into collected poems, 1947 to 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-20

1947 “...Just about everything Allen Ginsberg has written is included in his more than 800-page Collected Poems: 1947 to 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-21

1947 “...On the heels of his collected poems 1947 to 1980, Ginsberg plans five more volumes....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-22

1948 “...It's set in 1948 and the backdrop is the Civil War in China....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-28

1948 “...In it, Bosse's fictional characters are swept along by events in Thailand and China in 1948 just before the collapse of the government of Chiang Kai-shek....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-29

1948 “...Fire in Heaven is set in the India, Thailand, and China of 1948, with the book's many characters caught up in the violent events of the day....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-30

1948 “...I wrote it in 1948 which was the year of the Communist takeover...”

Interviewee(s): Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-22

1948 “...Another essay deals with the Hollywood Ten, film writers and directors who were jailed in 1948 for defying a House committee that was hunting for communists....”

Interviewee(s): Schickel, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-09

1948 “...It was 1948, a woman named Shirley Jackson was living in a small Vermont town where her husband taught at Bennington....”

Interviewee(s): Oppenheimer, Judy, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-28

1948 “...I can't imagine that any one story could have, no matter what it was, could have that kind of reaction today but then in 1948 that story really brought in an incredible reaction....”

Interviewee(s): Oppenheimer, Judy, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-28

1948 “...Norman Mailer's recent novel, Harlot's Ghost, broke earlier price barriers and sells for $30, but Mailer notes his first novel in 1948 also caused a stir....”

Interviewee(s): Mailer, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-04

1948 “...John Steinbeck had been divorced by his second wife and in 1948 moved back to a cottage built by his father in Pacific Grove, California....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-22

1948 “...But Donovan withstood the corridor intrigues and the backstabbing until 1948 when he ran into an old enemy Harry Truman....”

Interviewee(s): Brown, Anthony Cave
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-09

1948 “...James Ellroy was born in L.A. in 1948....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1948 “...James Ellroy's novel, The Black Dahlia, based on the brutal, unsolved 1948 murder of a young woman in L.A., was published in 1987, his breakthrough book and the first novel in what he calls his L.A. quartet....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1948 “...His wife Zelda was killed in a nursing home fire in 1948....”

Interviewee(s): Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-25

1948 “...Adams joined the British Civil Service in 1948....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Richard, 1920-2016
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-11

1948 “...Thomas Merton began laying the groundwork for his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, years before it was published in 1948....”

Interviewee(s): Mott, Michael, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-12

1948 “...As a child of nine in 1948, Nicholas Gage was caught up in the Greek Civil War, along with his mother and three of his four sisters....”

Interviewee(s): Gage, Nicholas
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-18

1948 “...The book is really about a woman who struggles through 10 years of war and revolutions to keep her family together, and when her family is threatened, she arranges their escape from the battle ground of the Greek civil War in 1948, and in retribution, she is executed....”

Interviewee(s): Gage, Nicholas
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-18

1948 “...In his book Eleni, Nicholas Gage writes about his search for his mother's executioners during the Greek Civil War in 1948....”

Interviewee(s): Gage, Nicholas
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-19

1948 “...1984, I think, is really about what 1948 felt like to George Orwell, when looked at in the worst possible way....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-19

1948 “...Article 19 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948....”

Interviewee(s): Boyle, Kevin (C. Kevin)
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-12

1948 “...I was born in '48, the year after the murder occurred, and grew up in Los Angeles and have always been obsessed with Los Angeles in the past....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-05

1948 “...Patricia Highsmith got the idea for the book in 1948 and was encouraged by the late Truman Capote to go to the artist colony Yaddo to write it....”

Interviewee(s): Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-02

1948 “...In 1948 Newsweek ran the headline 50 Experts Unanimously Agree that Thomas E. Dewey will be the Next President of the United States....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-14

1949 “...She died in 1949 after being struck by a car....”

Interviewee(s): Edwards, Anne, 1927-
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-26

1949 “...and I finished it in '49....”

Interviewee(s): Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-22

1949 “...She was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson....”

Interviewee(s): Kincaid, Jamaica
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-30

1949 “...So, in 1949, One-eyed Mack takes to the road by bus....”

Interviewee(s): Lehrer, James
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-30

1949 “...In 1949, Asimov joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-19

1949 “...In 1949, Freberg and actor Daws Butler were hired by director Bob Clampett as puppeteers on a live TV show called Time for Beany....”

Interviewee(s): Freberg, Stan
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-14

1949 “...Lessing left Rhodesia for London in 1949....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-07

1949 “...Because all of a sudden, the Hague machine collapsed in 1949, just as I was getting out of college, and it was for us, similar to the fall of Rome....”

Interviewee(s): Fleming, Thomas J.
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-11

1949 “...Dorothy Salisbury Davis has been turning out stories of mystery and suspense since 1949, and in 1985, was honored with the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America....”

Interviewee(s): Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-14

1949 “...When her husband divorced her, in 1949, she was able to leave....”

Interviewee(s): Tan, Amy
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-16

1949 “...Graham Swift was born in London in 1949, educated at Cambridge, taught for a while, and now writes full-time....”

Interviewee(s): Swift, Graham, 1949-
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-31

1949 “...Writer Patricia Highsmith's best known book is Strangers on a Train, in print since it was first published in 1949....”

Interviewee(s): Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-01

1949 “...Rather, he was characterizing the fears he had about his own time, 1949....”

Interviewee(s): Calder, Nigel, 1931-2014
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-31

1949 “...She moved to London in 1949, where she drifted into writing....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-26

1950s “...Robert Creeley had always known he wanted to be a writer, and in the 1940s and 50s, he determinedly sent his stories out....”

Interviewee(s): Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-25

1950s “...Writer Ring Lardner Jr. is a soft spoken man whose demeanor belies the fear of struggle he had with the government of the 1940s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-16

1950s “...The blacklist began to break down in the late 50s and Ring Lardner Jr. was once again able to use his name....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-16

1950s “...By the '40s and '50s, specially after the second World War, technology and the extraordinary transformation of our world by technology, made literature seem less central, less important than it had been....”

Interviewee(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-11

1950s “...It was an Ace paperback published in the early 50s whereas in 1956 when City Lights published Howl, that was the first book that really got a lot of attention, because it was the subject of an obscenity suit....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-22

1950s “...The Beat generation of the 1940s and 50s had to start somewhere, and it started with Harold Huncke....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-12

1950s “...The editor of The Portable Beat Reader, Ann Charters, says most of the Beat writers of the 50s and 60s were male, and many of them homosexual....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-13

1950s “...Long identified with the Beat writers of the 50s and 60s, Burroughs says he has a moral tolerance for anything, except crimes against people or property....”

Interviewee(s): Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-29

1950s “...In the 1950s, he switched to the New York Times, where he stayed for 25 years....”

Interviewee(s): Salisbury, Harrison E. (Harrison Evans), 1908-1993
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-04

1950s “...In the early 50s, there was rather lively underground in Literary Underground, we had groups of fiction writers and poets and musicians....”

Interviewee(s): Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-23

1950s “...It is a novel after all, set in the 50s and the 60s...”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-07

1950s “...It's a childhood friendship in the 50s turning into the 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-07

1950s “...John Irving's fans won't be disappointed with his novel of two boyhood friends of the 1950s, A Prayer for Owen Meany, now a Ballantine paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-20

1950s “...McEwan says the Pax Americana in 1950s Europe was mostly about pleasure....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-28

1950s “...One of England's top writers is Ian McEwan, whose latest novel, The Innocent, is a psychological thriller set in the Cold War Berlin of the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-29

1950s “...So in the 1950s, Brendan Gill and Frank Lloyd Wright developed a true friendship....”

Interviewee(s): Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa:

1950s “...Morton says that only since the 1950s, with the advent of cheaper travel across the Atlantic, have the French developed some anti-American sentiment....”

Interviewee(s): Morton, Brian N.
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-17

1950s “...In the 1950s after he had left the party, he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee naming names that damaged his relationship with such friends as playwright Arthur Miller....”

Interviewee(s): Kazan, Elia
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-16

1950s “...In the 1950s, Terkel hosted a TV show called, Studs' Place....”

Interviewee(s): Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-21

1950s “...Geoffrey Wolff sets much of his recent novel, The Final Club at Princeton University in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-10

1950s “...It was that way at Princeton, where Geoffrey Wolff was a student in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-11

1950s “...Dan Wakefield moved to New York in the 1950s to go to Columbia and made up his mind never to return to Indiana....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1950s “...Dan Wakefield celebrates the 1950s in his book, New York in the '50s, a personal memoir of the Jazz, the books, the politics, and the sex of the time....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1950s “...In the 1960s, Wakefield, author of such novels as Going All the Way, and Starting Over, moved to New England for good, but still misses the New York of his youth, and wonders when the '50s ended....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1950s “...When did the '50s end?...”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1950s “...Houghton Mifflin published New York in the '50s by Dan Wakefield....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1950s “...As Dan Wakefield tells it in his book, New York in the Fifties, there was a lot of lust in the 1950s, but not much sex....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1950s “...Dan Wakefield recalls the great orgasm debate, spawn by Norman Mailer in the '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1950s “...Before the 50s nobody could even talk about these things, so it was just the beginning of freedom....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1950s “...There were dark sides to the '50s: censorship, McCarthyism, and a lot of heavy drinking....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1950s “...In the 50s, he says, there was hope....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1950s “...By that stage, the climate for books dealing with sexually risky narratives Had changed since the early 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-09

1950s “...This book begins in the 1860s and is over in the 1950s, so that much of the obstetrical procedure that's described in the book, it just isn't done anymore....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-08

1950s “...When Joan Didion was a senior at Berkeley in the 1950s, she won a contest sponsored by Vogue Magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Didion, Joan
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-25

1950s “...Novelist John Gregory Dunne, Princeton educated and a member of a well-to-do Hartford, Connecticut family, went into the army as an enlisted man in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-16

1950s “...His latest novel, Walter Winchell, is based on the life of the powerful gossip columnist of the 30s, 40s, and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-22

1950s “...Oates' novel relates to her early girlhood in upstate New York in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-30

1950s “...Joyce Carol Oates' novel, Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, deals with racial discrimination in the North in the 1950s and '60s, Oates' own formative years in Upstate New York....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-01

1950s “...Because It Is My Heart, the story of a girl's coming-of-age, and the parallel lives of blacks and whites in the 1950s and '60s, published by William Abrahams Dutton....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-02

1950s “...By this time, it was the mid 1950s, the days of live television drama, and he left a TV script with a friend at NBC who put it on the desk of an executive....”

Interviewee(s): Miller, J. P. (James Pinckney), 1919-2001
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-27

1950s “...The idea for Pat Conroy's best-selling novel of a southern family, The Prince of Tides, stems from something he saw when Conroy was a kid in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Conroy, Pat
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-04

1950s “...John Henry Faulk, a cause celebre of the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-18

1950s “...John Henry Faulk was blacklisted in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-19

1950s “...North Carolina of the 1950s wasn't the easiest place in which to grow up if you were gay....”

Interviewee(s): Maupin, Armistead
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-29

1950s “...And then in the '50s, they started talking about computers, rockets....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-19

1950s “...Beginning with the 1950s, science fiction writers were taken seriously....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-19

1950s “...The photographs go back to the 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Morath, Inge
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-18

1950s “...Sloan Wilson, he has written the sequel to his smash of the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-14

1950s “...Sloan Wilson, author of A Summer Place, Ice Brothers and now a sequel to his best seller of the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-16

1950s “...In the 1950s, Paule Marshall was working as a feature writer for a now-defunct magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Marshall, Paule, 1929-
Broadcast circa: 1992-02-04

1950s “...Russell Hoban fell into writing books for children in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Hoban, Russell
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-09

1950s “...Comedian / satirist Stan Freberg in one of his record hits of the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Freberg, Stan
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-13

1950s “...In the 1950s, comedian Stan Freberg became a recording star....”

Interviewee(s): Freberg, Stan
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-15

1950s “...In the early 50s, he was working on a live TV show in New York written by Rod Serling and came up with a two-page sketch....”

Interviewee(s): Shagan, Steve
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-02

1950s “...It was in the 1950s, and it was in the infancy of a new and powerful medium....”

Interviewee(s): Rogers, Fred
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-07

1950s “...In the 1950s, Rogers helped to launch the nation's first community television station in Pittsburgh and was asked to do a daily children's show....”

Interviewee(s): Rogers, Fred
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-08

1950s “...Since his early books of the 1950s, James Purdy has built an almost cult-like following....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-13

1950s “...The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is the story of the life and loves of two Cuban immigrant brothers who form their own band in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-24

1950s “...The Latin beat of the 1950s sets the tone for the novel....”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-25

1950s “...His family was poor, but his 1950s childhood came during a safer, saner time....”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-26

1950s “...The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" is a moving tribute to the Latin spirit of the 1950s, and of the people who lived in that world....”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-26

1950s “...There were turbulent times for Howard Fast through the '30s, '40s, and '50s, membership in the Communist Party, prison, blacklisting, and through it all, he stuck at his typewriter....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-05

1950s “...He has been a communist, a founder of the world peace movement, a victim of blacklisting in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-09

1950s “...In the 1950s, Peter Viertel went to Africa to work on the screenplay for The African Queen, but discovered that director John Huston was more interested in big game hunting than movie making....”

Interviewee(s): Viertel, Peter
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-29

1950s “...Peter Viertel's life in the 50s, Dangerous Friends, was published by Double Day....”

Interviewee(s): Viertel, Peter
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-29

1950s “...In his book, Dangerous Friends, screenwriter Peter Viertel writes about John Huston, Ernest Hemingway, and other celebrities of the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Viertel, Peter
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-30

1950s “...For him, the 1950s were filled with parties, dinners, drinks, and trips; and one wonders how he and his friends ever found time to write....”

Interviewee(s): Viertel, Peter
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-30

1950s “...While William Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization for E.T. he wrote the screenplay for the recent movie The Book of Love based on his coming of age novel of the 40s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Kotzwinkle, William
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-08

1950s “...Aksyonov says his early work took a realistic approach and explored ideas that appealed to the Soviet youth of the 50s and 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Aksenov, Vasiliĭ, 1932-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-25

1950s “...The writer, James Ellroy, has an obsession with the Los Angeles of the 1940s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1950s “...Ellroy says his books are more than crime stories, but a detailed tableau of L.A. in the 40s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1950s “...There's a photograph of Barko and Ellroy on the dust jacket of his recent crime novel, White Jazz, the story of a corrupt cop in the Los Angeles of the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-11

1950s “...In the 1950s, Arthur Hailey was a salesman flying in a noisy airliner from Vancouver to his home in Toronto....”

Interviewee(s): Hailey, Arthur
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-14

1950s “...Somehow Ellen Currie was left at the starting gate when she tried to launch a writing career in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Currie, Ellen
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-28

1950s “...Susan Isaacs was a 1950s girl from Brooklyn....”

Interviewee(s): Isaacs, Susan, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-30

1950s “...True to her '50s ambitions, Susan Isaacs married a lawyer, moved to Long Island, and had two kids....”

Interviewee(s): Isaacs, Susan, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-30

1950s “...Set on the Brooklyn rooftops of the late 1950s, it's about the relationship between a 10 year old girl and a grown man....”

Interviewee(s): Schwartz, Jane
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-23

1950s “...Price, who never saw a TV set until the mid 50s when he was in his early 20s, warns of the passivity that TV enforces on the minds of the young....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-07

1950s “...In the 1950s, Ballantine published the best of the science fiction then being written....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-21

1950s “...When Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, launched his career in the 1950s, there were several hundred independent bookstores across the country run by people who cared about books....”

Interviewee(s): Epstein, Jason
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-21

1950s “...A couple published in the 50s....”

Interviewee(s): King, Thomas, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-05

1950s “...In the 1950s, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow collaborated with producer Fred Friendly to launch a series of television documentaries called See It Now....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-17

1950s “...By the late 1950s, newsman Edward R. Murrow's position at CBS had eroded....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-18

1950s “...S.J. Perelman was probably the most important American humorist of the 30s, 40S and 50s, maybe even of the 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-10

1950s “...There were a lot of laughs in the books and essays of S.J. Perelman, the famous humorist of the '30s, '40s, and '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-11

1950s “...L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer, founded the Church of Scientology in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Forman, Len
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-22

1950s “...Reynolds Price reaches back to his days as a counselor at a North Carolina boy's camp in the 1950s for his latest novel, The Tongues of Angels....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-06

1950s “...The novel by Reynolds Price, The Tongues of Angels, is steeped in spirituality, the story of young boys at a summer camp in the Great Smokey Mountains in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-07

1950s “...It's set at a boys camp in the Great Smokey Mountains in the the 1950s and is about a precocious youth who's life is clouded by a terrible tragedy....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1991-07-12

1950s “...This was the 50s, remember....”

Interviewee(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-08

1950s “...In the 1950s, he came up with the idea of producing books in quality, or trade paperback, editions and met a lot of resistance....”

Interviewee(s): Stein, Sol
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-16

1950s “...Edward Abbey has been writing about the American West since the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-04

1950s “...More than 90 of Marc Riboud's photographs take from the 1950s through the 80s, throughout the world, are in his book Photographs at Home and Abroad....”

Interviewee(s): Riboud, Marc
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-05

1950s “...French photojournalist Marc Riboud has been a world traveler since the early 1950s when he struck out as a freelance photographer....”

Interviewee(s): Riboud, Marc
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-06

1950s “...Rich and famous the late writer Irwin Shaw moved to France and Switzerland for tax purposes in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Schnayerson, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-11

1950s “...In the 1950s Ray Bradbury rented a typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library and began writing a novel about firemen who burn books....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-22

1950s “...In the 1950s, as a housewife, working, going to city college, and trying to write, something had to give....”

Interviewee(s): Rossner, Judith, 1935-2005
Broadcast circa: 1983-08-08

1950s “...Then Harvey Kurtzman landed a better job, drawing horror strips of EC Comics, but the horror comics of the 50s ran into congressional censorship efforts....”

Interviewee(s): Kurtzman, Harvey
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-19

1950s “...Unlike the horror comics of the 50s however, Mad had a few critics except for the time Harvey created a Mad cover that looked like a school notebook....”

Interviewee(s): Kurtzman, Harvey
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-20

1950s “...In the 1950s, Dick Francis was one of England's top jockeys....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-09

1950s “...Now the women of Barbara Raskin's generation are in their 40s and 50s, a time to assess their lives....”

Interviewee(s): Raskin, Barbara
Broadcast circa:

1950s “...But in the 1950s, Budd Schulberg turned his back on his former Communist associates and identified 17 members before a House committee....”

Interviewee(s): Schulberg, Budd
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-13

1950s “...In the early '50s in Canada, it seemed if you wanted to write you had to get out....”

Interviewee(s): Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-12

1950s “...finally in 1950s was shackled to neighboring Ethiopia....”

Interviewee(s): Keneally, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-25

1950s “...I think it's wonderful the way that young people now maintain a remarkable almost 1950s-like optimism in the face of some pretty chaotic world situations....”

Interviewee(s): Coupland, Douglas
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-13

1950s “...Gays are considerably gayer than they were in the period when my book takes place, which is the 1950s and in the Midwest....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-01

1950s “...In the 1950s and before, gays were seen differently than they are today....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-01

1950s “...It's about the emotional trauma of adjusting to homosexuality during the 1950s in the Midwest....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-02

1950s “...Fast, the author of more than 70 books was a member of the Communist Party in the '40s and '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-31

1950s “...Fast finally broke publicly with the Communist Party in the late 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-31

1950s “...The hero was a male cheerleader, which were uncommon in the 1950s, who also dropped kicked field goals and extra points....”

Interviewee(s): McDowell, Edwin
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-10

1950s “...The working class and the middle class, the people who had, in the '50s, what we used to call the American Dream....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-14

1950s “...What I didn't know was that there was virulent anti-Semitism in the advertising field in the 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Corman, Avery
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-20

1950s “...By the 1950s, Cole was fingered as a Communist Party member....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1982-02-18

1950s “...Screenwriter Lester Cole served a year in prison for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1982-02-22

1950s “...The comic book industry flourished through the 1940s, but by the 50s, things changed....”

Interviewee(s): Obadiah, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-19

1950s “...Most Americans thinking that comic books are for children and I can't blame them for that because of what comic books became in the 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Obadiah, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-19

1950s “...Lawrence Ferlinghetti says paperbacks weren't considered real books back in the 50s, but the form proved to be hospitable to the poets of the Beat Generation, who flocked to City Lights....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-30

1950s “...Lawrence Ferlinghetti says that most small publishers in the 1950s didn't have the resources to defend themselves from the censors....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-27

1950s “...Of allowing myself to tap certain feelings associated with early childhood and things I remember from the late '40s and early '50s in Milwaukee....”

Interviewee(s): Straub, Peter, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-03-27

1950s “...In the late 1950s, Ward Just, landed a job at Newsweek and later at the Washington Post....”

Interviewee(s): Just, Ward S.
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-27

1950s “...He says that as he gets older, he becomes increasingly interested in the Midwest of the 1940s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Just, Ward S.
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-01

1950s “...With that benign beginning and an exploration of Jack's relationship with his father, who is in prison for tax evasion, Ward Just's book jumps through the Chicago of the late '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Just, Ward S.
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-24

1950s “...The book is sometimes shocking for its depictions of sordid male sex, for in the late 1950s and early '60s anonymous sex in public bathrooms seemed to be the only release....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-05

1950s “...In the 1950s and '60s, Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset clashed head-on with the people who used to censor our books....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-22

1950s “...The big-band musicians started packing up their instruments in the 1950s....”

Interviewee(s): Forrest, Helen
Broadcast circa: 1982-07-05

1950s “...In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy burst on the scene, and launched a terrifying witch hunt....”

Interviewee(s): Bliss, Edward, 1912-2002
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-16

1950s “...In the 1950s, Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist hunting committee....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-25

1950s “...In the concluding volume of his biography of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad says that Hughes was a frequent victim of racism, as he traveled during the 30s, 40s and 50s....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-21

1950s “...Their ideas in the late 1940s and early 50s were often misguided....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-05

1950s “...In his memoir Loyalties, Carl Bernstein describes how his left-leaning parents were caught up in the paranoia of the Cold War years of the 1940s and '50s....”

Interviewee(s): Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-19

1950s “...In his memoir, Loyalties, Carl Bernstein writes of the Communist witch hunts of the 1940s and '50s and the ordeal of his politically active parents....”

Interviewee(s): Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-16

1950s “...The anti-Communists did pretty good in the early '50s because they called people "Commies", "Reds", "Pinkos", "fellow travelers"....”

Interviewee(s): Buchwald, Art
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-27

1950s “...I left Albany in a huff, back in the '50s when I went to Puerto Rico for the first time, because I was very bored with it...”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-24

1950s “...Why couldn't these bizarre events happen to someone like me, I'm poetic, I grew up a teenager in the 1950s on science fiction, why don't these things happen to me?...”

Interviewee(s): Strieber, Whitley
Broadcast circa: 1987-05-26

1950s “...For example, back in the 1950s, during the McCarthy era, we had a spurt in book banning....”

Interviewee(s): Noble, William
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-20

1950s “...Going way back to the '50s, they were references to "Keep an eye on this one", like, here's the new hot kid....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-11

1950s “...Elmore Leonard began writing in the early 1950's, and deliberately settled on a genre....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-12

1950s “...Well, as late as the late 40s, and ealy 50s, in this country, we still had formidable institutions threatening the freedom of publishers and authors....”

Interviewee(s): De Grazia, Edward, 1927-2013
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-02

1950s “...Allen Ginsberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, educated at Columbia, and in the 50s became open about his homosexuality and his enthusiasm for psychedelic drugs....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-18

1950s “...A far cry from the 50s and 60s, when he wore his counter-culture uniform, which included prayer shawls, beads, bells, bracelets, and a flowing, black beard....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-19

1950 “...The name comes from the now defunct experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina where Creeley taught in the 1950's....”

Interviewee(s): Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa:

1950 “...In the 1950's, Stein got a fellowship at The MacDowell Colony where he met the play write Thornton Wilder....”

Interviewee(s): Stein, Sol
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-04

1950 “...So in the 1950's Brendan Gill and Frank Lloyd Wright developed a true friendship....”

Interviewee(s): Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-07

1950 “...In the 1950's, Aldiss had a premonition about a new magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson), 1925-
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-02

1950 “...The writer Dan Wakefield thinks the 1950's are getting a bad rep. Wakefield in his book NewYork in the 50's, insists the 50's were anything but the silent generation....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-29

1950 “...The New York of Dan Wakefield's 1950's is long gone....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-29

1950 “...Buckley's conservative politics were well-established by 1950, when he graduated from Yale, and where he earned his spurs by editing the school paper and by writing editorials castigating fellow students for being too liberal by supporting Eisenhower....”

Interviewee(s): Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-23

1950 “...John and Elaine married in 1950 and moved to New York where John could be cranky when he wrote....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-22

1950 “...But biographer Annie Cohen-Solal says that from 1945 to 1950 Sartre had an intense relationship with a woman he met in New York, a woman Cohen-Solal identifies only as Dolores V. Cohen-Solal says Sartre broke with Dolores in the way that he ended most of his affairs....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-09

1950 “...Because It Is My Heart, is very much about the racism of the 1950's and 60's....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-31

1950 “...The story of a girl's coming of age and the parallel lives of blacks and whites in the 1950's and 60's....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-14

1950 “..., I think, that is, I've earned my living writing since 1950, when I went to work on the Brownsville Herald, down on the Mexican border, but the novel is a new form, I had to wrestle pretty hard, with developing the character and bringing the thing to the emotional pitch that I wanted....”

Interviewee(s): Nevin, David, 1927-2011
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-17

1950 “...In the 1950's, Paule Marshall was working as a feature writer for a now defunct magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Marshall, Paule, 1929-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-06

1950 “...Zuckerman says renewed concern about nuclear war came in the 1970's when the government sought to replace the missiles, submarines, and bombers that were built in the 1950's....”

Interviewee(s): Zuckerman, Edward
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-28

1950 “...Dickey actually made the first notes for Alnilam in 1950, and had no idea then that the novel would take its present form....”

Interviewee(s): Dickey, James
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-06

1950 “...After three months in prison for defying the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950, novelist Howard Fast returned to his typewriter only to find himself the victim of blacklisting....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-08

1950 “...Branden was 19 in 1950 when he wrote Rand a fan letter, and she invited him to her house in Los Angeles....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Nathaniel
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-14

1950 “...In the 1950's, Gerald Green worked at NBC where he was one of the creators of The Today Show....”

Interviewee(s): Green, Gerald
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-04

1950 “...In the 1950's there was hardly a celebrity that budding novelist and screenwriter Peter Viertel didn't know....”

Interviewee(s): Viertel, Peter
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-28

1950 “...Peter Viertel has written a memoir, Dangerous Friends about his relationships with John Houston, Ernest Hemingway, and other figures of the 1950's....”

Interviewee(s): Viertel, Peter
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-28

1950 “...Susan Isaacs was a 1950's girl from Brooklyn....”

Interviewee(s): Isaacs, Susan, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-16

1950 “...It was 1950, Epstein had just graduated from Columbia....”

Interviewee(s): Epstein, Jason
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-20

1950 “...In 1950, Ray Bradbury was walking along a street in Los Angeles when a cop stopped Bradbury and asked him why he was walking....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1993-09-18

1950 “...and he detailed the basis for it in a 1950 book called Dianetics....”

Interviewee(s): Forman, Len
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-21

1950 “...Louis L'Amour started writing what we call paperback originals back in the old days, the Gold Medal line, which was set up in 1950 as an exclusively original paperback publisher....”

Interviewee(s): Davis, Kenneth C.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-07

1950 “...Born in France in 1950, Merton's early school days were in Queens, New York, and later in Cambridge on a scholarship, an experience that proved to be a disaster....”

Interviewee(s): Mott, Michael, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-10

1950 “...The Reader's Digest began selling its Condensed Books by mail order in 1950, and now market some five or six volumes a year....”

Interviewee(s): Zinsser, John
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-13

1950 “...John Zinsser has been with the Reader's Digest condensed books for 34 years since their start in 1950 there have been nearly 160 volumes of the condensed books....”

Interviewee(s): Zinsser, John
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-14

1950 “...James Ellroy's latest hard cover from the Mysterious Press is "The Big Nowhere," about the hollywood "red scare" of 1950 and a series of gruesome homosexual killings....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-10

1950 “...James Ellroy's newest thriller, "The Big Nowhere" is also set in L.A. in 1950 and focuses on the Hollywood "Red Scare" along with a series of brutal homosexual murders....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-11

1950 “...Probably a book is cheaper today than it was back in 1940 or '50....”

Interviewee(s): Meyer, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-02

1950 “...For many years Eritrea was an Italian colony then British, and finally in the 1950's was shackled to neighboring Ethiopia....”

Interviewee(s): Keneally, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-08

1950 “...In 1950, Fast was sent to prison for refusing to give congressional witch hunters the names of contributors to a fund that financed a hospital for those who had fought the fascists in Spain....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-27

1950 “...Barbara Branden, a student at UCLA, will never forget that evening in 1950 in California when she first met Ayn Rand....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-06

1950 “...Where he was born in 1950....”

Interviewee(s): Sayles, John, 1950-
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-18

1950 “...The shock of segregation hit him when he first went south in 1950 to work as a musician with blacks in New Orleans....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-24

1950 “...The 1950's were traumatic years for composer Aaron Copland....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-01

1951 “...Ring Lardner Jr. found himself unable to find work when he got out of prison in 1951....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-16

1951 “...And it really wasn't until 1951 in an inspired burst, he discovered his own writing soul at last, he said, and began to write to write what he called spontaneous prose....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-14

1951 “...It's a fragment of a novel that Burroughs wrote in 1951 but never published....”

Interviewee(s): Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-16

1951 “...William Burroughs, his latest book is one he wrote in 1951 and never published until now, Queer....”

Interviewee(s): Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-16

1951 “...Jones will never be forgotten for his 1951 masterpiece, From Here to Eternity....”

Interviewee(s): Jones, James, 1921-1977
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-09

1951 “...In fact, somewhere I read that it was the most reviewed book published in 1951....”

Interviewee(s): Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-23

1951 “...There has never been a major biography of the Vienna-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who lived form 1889 to 1951....”

Interviewee(s): Duffy, Bruce
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-15

1951 “...The magazine stories appeared in the 1940's, the three books Foundation, Foundation Empire and Second Foundation came out '51, '52, and '53....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1951 “...We started working on it in 1951, went on the air in 1952, and I was producer of it for about a year and a half....”

Interviewee(s): Green, Gerald
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-03

1951 “...Like the mature Louis Auchincloss, the young Auchincloss too juggled a law career with a career as a writer, but in 1951, appealed to his father for an allowance so that he could quit his job and write full-time....”

Interviewee(s): Auchincloss, Louis
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-30

1951 “...The Grass Harp, 1951....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-16

1951 “...Screenwriter Lester Cole was one of the Hollywood Ten, sentenced to prison in 1951 for refusting to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1982-02-18

1951 “...1951 was a fateful year for Hollywood screenwriter Lester Cole....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1982-02-19

1951 “...World War Two started a real decline, particularly in '51 and '52, when McCarthy and the House of Un-American Activities actually investigated the comic book industry....”

Interviewee(s): Obadiah, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-19

1951 “...Chicago-born Barney Rosset first heard of Grove Press in 1951....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-21

1952 “...And like Barbara, Howard Fast, too, ran for Congress in 1952, in the Bronx, on the ticket of the now defunct American Labor Party....”

Interviewee(s): Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-05

1952 “...And Wright says that Hellman was less than heroic when she was forced to appear before a witch-hunting congressional committee in 1952....”

Interviewee(s): Wright, William, 1930-2016
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-13

1952 “...When he unzipped a suitcase and brought this thing out and set it on the table, and looked at me with this gloating smile, and my first reaction was this looks like a 1952 television set....”

Interviewee(s): Sculley, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-08

1952 “...Gigi Mahon says the magazine's thrust changed somewhat after editor Harold Ross died in 1952 and William Shawn took over....”

Interviewee(s): Mahon, Gigi
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-20

1952 “...In fact, her play, The Mousetrap, has been running in London since 1952....”

Interviewee(s): Morgan, Janet P.
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-17

1952 “...Which Robert Giroux published as a young editor in 1952....”

Interviewee(s): Giroux, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-25

1952 “...The magazine stories appeared in the 1940's, the three books Foundation, Foundation Empire and Second Foundation came out '51, '52, and '53....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1952 “...Charles Jr. took charge of the firm in 1952 after his father's death, and discovered that Scribner's was shaky, relying too much on its reputation for publishing fiction....”

Interviewee(s): Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-23

1952 “...We started working on it in 1951, went on the air in 1952, and I was producer of it for about a year and a half....”

Interviewee(s): Green, Gerald
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-03

1952 “...Vance Bourjaily was part of the post-war wave of writers, that included Norman Mailer, William Styron, and Herbert Gold, when he came to New York to edit at distinguished literary magazine called Discovery in 1952....”

Interviewee(s): Bourjaily, Vance, 1922-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-11

1952 “...Ballantine founded Bantam Books in 1945, and Ballantine Books in 1952, both now part of the Radom House empire....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-21

1952 “...In 1952, a photo essay of Marlene Dietrich appeared in Esquire Magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Arnold, Eve
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-14

1952 “...Created in 1952, Cadman is a pioneer among firms that record the spoken word....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-10

1952 “...One of the so-called Hollywood Ten, Lester Cole went to prison in 1952 for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Unamerican Activities about his communist past....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-16

1952 “...His first Catfish Ben book was in 1952, High Water at Catfish Bend....”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-09

1952 “...On Christmas Eve Ben Lucien Burman's first Catfish Bend story for children came out in 1952 and he is still writing them....”

Interviewee(s): Burman, Ben Lucien, 1895-1984
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-10

1952 “...World War Two started a real decline, particularly in '51 and '52, when McCarthy and the House of Un-American Activities actually investigated the comic book industry....”

Interviewee(s): Obadiah, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-19

1952 “...That was in 1952 and Schoenbrun who tells about the incident in his book, America Inside and Out, says Eisenhower's press people decided to ban television coverage on the ground that the TV lights would create a circus....”

Interviewee(s): Schoenbrun, David
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-29

1952 “...Copeland had some inkling the boom was about to fall because his patriotic work Lincoln Portrait was withdrawn from the Eisenhower inauguration in 1952....”

Interviewee(s): Perlis, Vivian
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-01

1953 “...It is 1953, and the novel's two main characters, Owen and Johnny, are 11 years old when Johnny's mother is accidentally killed....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-18

1953 “...As a special agent for the FBI, both in New York and Chicago, Conners had a minor role in the spy case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who died in Sing Sing's electric chair in 1953....”

Interviewee(s): Conners, Bernard F.
Broadcast circa: 1983-05

1953 “...Inducted into the army in 1953, Larry Collins was assigned to various military public relations duties in Paris....”

Interviewee(s): Collins, Larry
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-12

1953 “...The magazine stories appeared in the 1940's, the three books Foundation, Foundation Empire and Second Foundation came out '51, '52, and '53....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1953 “...The year was 1953, Paris....”

Interviewee(s): Plimpton, George
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-04

1953 “...Issue number one of the Paris Review hit the stands in the Spring of 1953....”

Interviewee(s): Plimpton, George
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-04

1953 “...In 1953, one of the things George Plimpton had to do as the editor of the Paris Review was to find someone to bankroll the fledgling literary magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Plimpton, George
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-05

1953 “...The long running literary magazine, The Paris Review, celebrated its 100th issue last year, and George Plimpton has been the editor since the magazine's founding in 1953....”

Interviewee(s): Plimpton, George
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-06

1953 “...George Plimpton and the Paris Review, fixtures on the literary scene since 1953....”

Interviewee(s): Plimpton, George
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-06

1953 “...L'Amour has churned out some 90 books since his first one in 1953, 'Hondo.'...”

Interviewee(s): L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-16

1953 “...L'Amour admits some of his hardcore fans will be disappointed that L'Amour hasn't turned out another Western, the books that have brought him fame, ever since his first, Hondo, in 1953, but L'Amour fans can rejoice in knowing that there exists a book club that sells L'Amour books exclusively....”

Interviewee(s): L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-17

1953 “...Nevertheless, his 90 or so books have sold nearly 150 million copies since Hondo, the first one, in 1953....”

Interviewee(s): L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-18

1953 “...L'Amour wrote some 100 books after his fist novel, Hondo, in 1953....”

Interviewee(s): L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-11

1953 “...The novella in turn was expanded into a full-length novel and published in 1953....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1993-09-18

1953 “...For example, a picture of a painter who looks as though he may be dancing, high up on the girders of the Eiffel Tower, first published in Life Magazine in 1953....”

Interviewee(s): Riboud, Marc
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-04

1953 “...In 1953, the film director John Huston read a Ray Bradbury short story about a dinosaur that falls in love with a lighthouse....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-23

1953 “...He called me to his hotel in August 1953, put a drink in my hand, and said, "What are you doing during the next year, Ray?"...”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-23

1953 “...City Lights was co-founded by poet and novelist Lawrence Ferlinghetti as the nation's first paperback store in 1953....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-30

1953 “...I decided to publish Waiting for Godot in '53, I believe....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-21

1954 “...Creeley went there as a teacher in 1954, and edited its literary magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-23

1954 “...The first thing he wrote when he was released from prison was a novel called The Ecstasy of Owen Muir, that was in 1954....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-17

1954 “...That script was Hide and Seek, dramatized on the Phil Cole Playhouse in 1954....”

Interviewee(s): Miller, J. P. (James Pinckney), 1919-2001
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-27

1954 “...Carlos Fuentes was 28 years old and a law school graduate in Mexico when he published his first book, a collection of stories, in 1954....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-18

1954 “...He's a Harvard graduate, class of 1954, where his classmates included Edward Kennedy and F. Lee Bailey....”

Interviewee(s): Updike, John
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-31

1954 “...In 1954 Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy was at the peak of his communist witch hunt, and Murrow and Friendly broadcast what was essentially a 30 minute television editorial against McCarthyism....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-23

1954 “...Dodd, Mead published his first novel in 1954....”

Interviewee(s): Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-10

1954 “...His first smash came in 1954,...”

Interviewee(s): Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-25

1954 “...His first bestseller was The Blackboard Jungle in 1954....”

Interviewee(s): Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-26

1954 “...Harvey Kurtzman created Mad Magazine in 1954 and is still making the young folks laugh....”

Interviewee(s): Kurtzman, Harvey
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-20

1954 “...Budd Schulberg's screenplay "On the Waterfront", a story of dockside corruption, won him an Oscar in 1954....”

Interviewee(s): Schulberg, Budd
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-14

1954 “...In 1954, the publishing house of Alfred A. Knopf started a trade paperback line called Vintage Books....”

Interviewee(s): McDonald, Erroll, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-09

1954 “...Art Garfunkel was a kid growing up in Queens when rock and roll hit the radio waves in 1954....”

Interviewee(s): Garfunkel, Art
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-25

1954 “...After getting out of Colby College in 1954, Parker went into the Army, did some advertising and public relations, but, he wanted to write....”

Interviewee(s): Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-21

1955 “...It focuses on his life from 1955 to 1973....”

Interviewee(s): Houseman, John, 1902-1988
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-12

1955 “...Ian McEwan's novel, The Innocent, is a psychological espionage thriller in which a young British telephone technician is sent to Berlin in 1955 to work with the CIA....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-27

1955 “...Cost $25 million dollars, which is, you know, a vast amount of money in 1955....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-27

1955 “...The story is set in Berlin 1955 where a young British telephone technician is helping the CIA to tunnel under Soviet phone lines....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-28

1955 “...It ran about 400 meters, very ambitious, cost $25 million, which is a vast amount of money in 1955....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1991-11-28

1955 “...In 1955, Nabokov sent the novel to his European literary agent, who, in turn, submitted it to the Olympia Press in Paris....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-18

1955 “...That best seller of 1955, written by Sloan Wilson, and made into a successful film with Gregory Peck....”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-14

1955 “...His latest book is The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II, a sequel to his 1955 blockbuster....”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-15

1955 “...Tom Rath may have been the quintessential company man, a hero of Sloan Wilson's 1955 novel...”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-16

1955 “...Agee was on his way to see his doctor for a checkup on the morning of May 16th, 1955 and he had been up a night or two before at a party all night drinking and talking and being with friends who he loved and who loved him and exhausted himself and that was the last heart attack, that was his third and final one....”

Interviewee(s): Bergreen, Laurence
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-26

1955 “...The Brooklyn-born Stone joined the Navy in 1955....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-19

1955 “...In 1955, he went to Hollywood and appeared in dozens of movies and television shows....”

Interviewee(s): Tryon, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-09

1955 “...For example, in June of 1955 Variety, a leading show business publication, said rock 'n roll is just a fad....”

Interviewee(s): Navasky, Victor S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-14

1955 “...The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy has gone through more than 85 printings since it was first published in 1955....”

Interviewee(s): Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-23

1955 “...The american born writer J.P. Donleavy was shocked in 1955 when he learned that the Olympia Press of Paris had published his novel, The Ginger Man, as one of a series of pornographic books....”

Interviewee(s): Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-24

1955 “...The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne became an international success and has remained in print since 1955....”

Interviewee(s): Moore, Brian, 1921-1999
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-06

1955 “...My reward was being dismissed and going on unemployment insurance in 1955....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-19

1956 “...For Dick Francis the 1956 Grand National steeplechase was his most horrible race....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1982-04-29

1956 “...In 1956, Mencken ordered them sealed, promising that the memoirs would tell the truth regardless of tender feelings....”

Interviewee(s): Fecher, Charles A.
Broadcast circa: 1991-03-12

1956 “...It was an Ace paperback published in the early 50s whereas in 1956 when City Lights published Howl, that was the first book that really got a lot of attention, because it was the subject of an obscenity suit....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-22

1956 “...And on the east coast, there's the Ginsberg/Huncke/Burroughs/Kerouac crowd meeting around Times Square and around Columbia, who were a different group, and it was the meshing of these groups that really gave birth to the Beat generation in 1956....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-12

1956 “...In 1956, Faulk lost his job as a performer on WCBS Radio after he filed a libel suit against a group which accused him of being pro-communist....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-19

1956 “...Faulk had his own show on WCBS Radio in 1956 when his nightmare started....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-21

1956 “...A good example of that is Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, which is a book that I read probably in 1956 or something when I was a kid....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-15

1956 “...Murray has been associated with The New Yorker since 1956 when he started as a fiction editor....”

Interviewee(s): Murray, William, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-22

1956 “...And then when Alex, my uncle Alexander Korda, the motion picture producer, died in 1956, I suddenly faced the fact there wasn't going to be a family business for me to drop into....”

Interviewee(s): Korda, Michael, 1933-
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-17

1956 “...Allowed to return in 1956, she enthusiastically embraced Premier Zhou Enlai and became a spokesperson for the Chinese point of view....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-04

1956 “...Poet and novelist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the famed City Lights Book Store in San Francisco was prosecuted as a pornographer in 1956....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-27

1956 “...In 1956 Elie Wiesel had no idea he would one day win the Nobel Peace Prize....”

Interviewee(s): Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-09

1956 “...and I had a 1956 Chevrolet....”

Interviewee(s): Nova, Craig
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-10

1957 “...I took the apomorphine cure with Dr. Dent in London in 1957 and that was very successful....”

Interviewee(s): Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-27

1957 “...The Elephant and My Jewish Problem contains most of Hugh Nissenson's early short stories, long out of print, and excerpts from his unpublished private journals going back to 1957, when he went to Israel for the first time....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-16

1957 “...He met her in 1957....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-16

1957 “...Bergreen notes that his best known work, A Death in the Family, was published two years after his death at the age of 45 in 1957....”

Interviewee(s): Bergreen, Laurence
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-25

1957 “...But real audiences were to come for Stan Freberg, who in 1957, replaced Jack Benny on CBS radio....”

Interviewee(s): Freberg, Stan
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-13

1957 “...By 1957, Nathaniel and Ayn were living in New York, where Rand completed Atlas Shrugged, and Nathaniel founded a lecture series to promote Objectivism....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Nathaniel
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-11

1957 “...And his next book, we'll look at the secret history of America from 1957 to 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-10

1957 “...I left New York in 1957, went out to Iowa City, Iowa, which was the wild west, as far as I was concerned....”

Interviewee(s): Bourjaily, Vance, 1922-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-11

1957 “...After more than thirty years with the Wall Street law firm where he has been a partner since 1957, Louis Auchincloss will put aside wills and trusts to write full-time....”

Interviewee(s): Auchincloss, Louis
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-28

1957 “...Writer Jerzy Kosinski, who's new novel is called "The Hermit of 69th Street", was 24 when he came to the US from Poland in 1957....”

Interviewee(s): Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991
Broadcast circa: 1988-10-05

1957 “...I was leading the Jockey's Championship at the time, so I got out in January 1957....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-08

1957 “...Dick Francis is a former champion jockey who retired from racing in 1957 to write....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-10

1957 “...Ayn Rand returned to New York from Hollywood to complete her massive book, Atlas Shrugged, which was published to hostile reviews in 1957....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-01

1957 “...In 1957, Barney Rosset launched Evergreen Review, which published the shorter works of people like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and James Purdy, until the magazine's demise in 1973....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-21

1957 “...In addition to publishing hardcover fiction and nonfiction, Barney Rosset's Grove Press also founded a literary magazine in 1957, Evergreen Review....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-23

1957 “...In 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a case involving and accused pornographer, Sam Roth....”

Interviewee(s): De Grazia, Edward, 1927-2013
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-22

1958 “...A San Francisco columnist began using the term beatnik, after Sputnik went into orbit in 1958....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-20

1958 “...In 1958, Lolita was released in the U.S., and because of the scandal around it, it went straight to number one, and sold more copies in the first weeks than any book since Gone With the Wind....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-10

1958 “...After the publication of Lolita in America in 1958, Vladimir Nabokov went to Hollywood for six months to write the screenplay of the novel for director Stanley Kubrick....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-11

1958 “...In 1958, I stopped teaching, kept my title....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1958 “...McDonald, Harvard class of 1958, drew on his own experience as a reporter at large at the Boston Globe to create Fletch, an investigative reporter....”

Interviewee(s): Mcdonald, Gregory, 1937-2008
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-04

1958 “...Stephen Spender, who then edited a magazine in London called Encounter, took the Rosacoke story and published it in London in 1958....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-06

1958 “...The carpentered hin in 1958....”

Interviewee(s): Updike, John
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-30

1958 “..." Murrow got up in the fall of 1958 and made a speech before the Radio-Television News Directors Association....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-24

1958 “...While he won the National Book Award for his novel the Wapshot Chronicle in 1958, and indeed his novel Falconer gave him a permanent place in 20th century literature, he was most at home with the short story....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1982-06-19

1958 “...That's Judy Taylor, an expert on Beatrix Potter, who says that Potter did keep a diary for 22 years, a diary in code that wasn't cracked until 1958....”

Interviewee(s): Taylor, Judy, 1932-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-03

1958 “...Mystery writer James Ellroy, whose latest novel is The Black Dahlia, has had an obsession with crime since 1958, when he was 10 years old....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-06

1958 “...In 1958, Robert Stone was 21, out of the navy and with nowhere to go....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-06

1958 “...The Ginger Man reached America in 1958....”

Interviewee(s): Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-24

1958 “...Before joining The Times in 1958 he was with the Saturday Review of Literature....”

Interviewee(s): Walters, Ray, 1912-
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-25

1959 “...In 1959, Fidel Castro seized Havana, Ben-Hur won an Oscar for Best Picture, The Sound of Music played on Broadway, the phrase "gung ho" made it into the language, Philip Roth published "Goodbye, Columbus....”

Interviewee(s): Gordon, Lois G.
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-01

1959 “...In Cold Blood is the story of these six people, brothers, who died together November 15, 1959 and Carrie Smith and Richard Hitchcock who were hanged April 14, 1965, and my book is the story of their lives and their deaths....”

Interviewee(s): Clarke, Gerald, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-10

1959 “...He's been pounding out columns for The Atlanta Constitution on an old manual typewriter he bought in 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Grizzard, Lewis, 1946-1994
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-01

1959 “...The Church in the Suburbs in 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Greeley, Andrew M., 1928-2013
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-26

1959 “..."Take this bloated, overwritten manuscript of yours "and extricate from it "the tight, beautiful little novel that's there." Brown Girl, Brownstones was published in 1959 and has become a minor classic, selling some 10,000 copies a year....”

Interviewee(s): Marshall, Paule, 1929-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-06

1959 “...Viking indignantly turned down Malcolm in 1959, a book Viking republished under the title, Dream Palaces, in 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-12

1959 “...Purdy's current publisher, Viking, turned down his first novel, Malcolm, in 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-01

1959 “...The L.A. quartet spans 1947 to 1959 in Los Angeles....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1959 “...Grass' first novel was published in 1959, The Tin Drum, in which the war is seen through the eyes of an amoral dwarf drummer....”

Interviewee(s): Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-09

1959 “...As I've often said I didn't really mean to write a sequel when I wrote Rabbit, Run in 1959, but 10 years later a sequel suggested itself and I jumped into it blindly, and it sort of wrote itself....”

Interviewee(s): Updike, John
Broadcast circa:

1959 “...In 1959, he formed a partnership to launch a highbrow book club called the Mid-Century Book Society....”

Interviewee(s): Stein, Sol
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-16

1959 “...They run until 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-22

1959 “...Ferrell is the editor of Dear Bess, the letters Harry Truman wrote to his wife between 1910 and 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-23

1959 “...Robert Ferrell, editor of Dear Bess, Harry Truman's letters to his wife from 1910 to 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ferrell, Robert H.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-23

1959 “...That pool hall experience, of course, led to his novel, The Hustler, in 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-17

1959 “...Since 1959, only one ground is left to have movies banned, that's obscenity....”

Interviewee(s): Newman, Roger K.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-16

1959 “...Black Dahlia begins, the first, is the first novel in a quartet, which will explore Los Angeles from the years 1947, the year of the Black Dahlia murder case, through to 1959....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-06

1959 “...I just happened to be there in July of 1959, it was my first trip to Vietnam....”

Interviewee(s): Karnow, Stanley
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-20

1959 “...Tender ends in 1959 as Leroy, who's been drafted, boards a troop ship....”

Interviewee(s): Childress, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-03

1959 “...He's the only publisher, I think, brave enough to publish Lady Chatterley's Lover, unexpurgated, in 1959....”

Interviewee(s): De Grazia, Edward, 1927-2013
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-02

1960s “...Unfortunately, it was like during the 60s and he heated his house with wood, you know, and he was into the land and nature, and well he maimed himself in a chainsaw accident, which would be very tragic except because of that he was reunited with his son....”

Interviewee(s): Janowitz, Tama
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-01

1960s “...he, you know, was during the 60s...”

Interviewee(s): Janowitz, Tama
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-01

1960s “...I didn't think a lot about who she was or how to develop her as a character, but I had her being shaped by kind of the upheavals of the 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Paretsky, Sara
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-06

1960s “...Fiction writer, Ann Beattie, scoffs at those puffed up assertions that she became the literary voice for those who came of age in the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Beattie, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-22

1960s “...The fuses that were lit in the 60s were blowing off....”

Interviewee(s): Lipson, Eden Ross
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-09

1960s “...Ann Charters says there was a lot of animosity toward the Beat writers and their followers in the 1960s, and the term hippie sounded a lot more friendly....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-20

1960s “...The editor of The Portable Beat Reader, Ann Charters, says most of the Beat writers of the 50s and 60s were male, and many of them homosexual....”

Interviewee(s): Charters, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-13

1960s “...Long identified with the Beat writers of the 50s and 60s, Burroughs says he has a moral tolerance for anything, except crimes against people or property....”

Interviewee(s): Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-29

1960s “...It is a novel after all, set in the 50s and the 60s...”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-07

1960s “...It's a childhood friendship in the 50s turning into the 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-07

1960s “...It's not a pleasant story, but it's an important one, because Anne Sexton was one of the most influential, confessional poets of the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-30

1960s “...Sometimes compared with J.D. Salinger because of his stories of soviet youth in the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Aksenov, Vasiliĭ, 1932-2009
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-28

1960s “...New white middle class cultures, created in the 60s and seventies....”

Interviewee(s): FitzGerald, Frances, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-18

1960s “...In the 1960s, Wakefield, author of such novels as Going All the Way, and Starting Over, moved to New England for good, but still misses the New York of his youth, and wonders when the '50s ended....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1960s “...A conversation drowned out in the '60s by disco and rock and distorted by recreational drugs....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1960s “...In such books as Chilly Scenes of Winter and Falling in Place, Ann Beattie writes of the people who came of age in the '60s....”

Interviewee(s): Beattie, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-09

1960s “...Writer Joan Didion has had a preoccupation with Latin America since the 1960s, and when on a trip south of the border, she toyed with the idea of writing a nonfiction book about the region....”

Interviewee(s): Didion, Joan
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-26

1960s “...In the 1960s, E. L. Doctorow entered publishing, first as an editor at New American Library, then at the Dial Press, where he became editor in chief....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-04

1960s “...It fictionalizes the key events of the 60s and 70s....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-15

1960s “...John Gregory Dunne's latest novel is The Red, White and Blue, a fictionalized treatment of the major events of the 60s and 70s as seen through the eyes of a wealthy Irish- American family in California....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-16

1960s “...no, that smacked too much of the '60s and the Beach Boys....”

Interviewee(s): Gold, Herbert, 1924-
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-30

1960s “...Joyce Carol Oates' novel, Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, deals with racial discrimination in the North in the 1950s and '60s, Oates' own formative years in Upstate New York....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-01

1960s “...Because It Is My Heart, the story of a girl's coming-of-age, and the parallel lives of blacks and whites in the 1950s and '60s, published by William Abrahams Dutton....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-02

1960s “...Apple is a place where the technology of the 80s and the social concerns of the 60s really came together....”

Interviewee(s): Rose, Frank
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-26

1960s “...In the 1960s, a new generation of science fiction writers came in that weren't interested primarily in machinery and technology of the future, but were interested in social structure and characterization....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-19

1960s “...I mean, I had written them in my 20s, now I was in my 60s!...”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-20

1960s “...When she started her first book in the early 1960's, she decided to use a professional, rather than an amateur detective, and in those days, that meant a man....”

Interviewee(s): James, P. D.
Broadcast circa: 1990-04-18

1960s “...Using his allowance and contributions from his family, James Laughlin, part of the steel family associated with Jones and Laughlin kept New Directions alive until it began to show some profit in the early 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-07

1960s “...It was tough being a publisher in the days before the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-08

1960s “...I started writing it at 18 then had to stop and began again in the 1960s and finally ended it in the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-15

1960s “...What I wanted to do in this novel, and I've tried to do in almost everything I've written, is to take the phenomenon of Vietnam and that era of the 60s and try as much as I can to universalize it, not to have it tied too specifically to Vietnam....”

Interviewee(s): Caputo, Philip
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-22

1960s “...The very same writers in the 60s and 70s wrote nihilistic, gloomy books....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1933-1982 | Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-05

1960s “...Piercy says no one was writing the kinds of things she wanted to read in the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Piercy, Marge
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-10

1960s “...Writer Donald Spoto notes that Williams declined as a voice in the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-07

1960s “...Once, in the mid 1960s, with a dock workers strike imminent, George Plimpton went to Mr. Dempsey to urge that the precious literary cargo be unloaded....”

Interviewee(s): Plimpton, George
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-06

1960s “...Aksyonov says his early work took a realistic approach and explored ideas that appealed to the Soviet youth of the 50s and 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Aksenov, Vasiliĭ, 1932-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-25

1960s “...Rosellen Brown was a fledgling writer when she and her husband went off to Mississippi to teach at a black college at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Brown, Rosellen
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-03

1960s “...But Mickey is obsessed with a now grown, but innocent, love-child of the '60s, named Astra Rainbow....”

Interviewee(s): Parent, Gail
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-25

1960s “...In the late 60s, Martin Cruz Smith found himself working on a magazine called For Men Only....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Broadcast circa:

1960s “...In the late 1960s, Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park, and Stallion Gate, found himself working on a magazine called For Men Only....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-02

1960s “...The Pranksters were, in a way, the beginning of that, what was going lead to the kind of mass Bohemia of youth in the late 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-20

1960s “...Robert Stone, a charter member of Ken Kesey's band of literary rebels, the Merry Pranksters, began to tire of the drug scene in the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-21

1960s “...Beyond the Bestseller says that when he first started in the late 1960's there were perhaps 75 publishing houses he could send manuscripts to....”

Interviewee(s): Curtis, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-18

1960s “...I had an earlier book, came out about two or three years ago, called The Mighty Music Box, which was a history of music and broadcasting, and throughout the book, which covered 1920 into the early 60s, Whiteman seemed to pop up in every chapter....”

Interviewee(s): DeLong, Thomas A.
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-22

1960s “...Paul Whiteman's career stretched from ragtime to rock, and he was active well into the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): DeLong, Thomas A.
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-22

1960s “...Particularly in the '60s, when my father was drinking a lot, their marriage had some very unpleasant times....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-25

1960s “...After John Cheever died in 1982, a small publishing house, Academy Chicago, proposed publishing a collection of lesser known Cheever short stories, written from the '20s through the '60s....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-26

1960s “...Most of America's obscenity laws were rendered moot in the 1960s thanks to one man, Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, Cal | Vonnegut, Kurt | Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005 | Blume, Judy | Alter, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-30

1960s “...In the late 1960's, Martyn Burke paid his own way to cover the Vietnam War as a freelancer....”

Interviewee(s): Burke, Martyn, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-04

1960s “...Mile Zero is populated by many colorful characters, among them a tough Cuban-American cop, a burned-out 60s radical, a shadowy Vietnam veteran-turned-drug-runner, all caught up in a series of voodoo-inspired murders....”

Interviewee(s): Sanchez, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-29

1960s “...There is almost a genre of documentary photographs that mainly come from the 1960s of empty rooms with tacky furniture and television screens....”

Interviewee(s): Appel, Alfred
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-04

1960s “...S.J. Perelman was probably the most important American humorist of the 30s, 40S and 50s, maybe even of the 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-10

1960s “...How does the Tripmaster Monkey relate to the 1960s hero of her novel, a young Chinese-American Berkeley graduate named Wittman?...”

Interviewee(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-26

1960s “...I wanted to use the American language, especially the language of the 60s....”

Interviewee(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-26

1960s “...Maxine Hong Kingston whose new book is called Tripmaster Monkey is not only a product of a Chinese immigrant family, but is a product of the 1960s as well....”

Interviewee(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-28

1960s “...Maxine Hong Kingston lives in Oakland, California where she wrote Tripmaster Monkey, the tale of a young Berkeley graduate and his adventures in the Bay area of the 1960s, published by Knoph....”

Interviewee(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-28

1960s “...Maxine Hong Kingston has a wonderful vision of the San Francisco area of the 1960s, for she, too, is a Berkeley graduate of that era....”

Interviewee(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-05

1960s “...That title refers back to a poem that I wrote in the 60s in which I speak of myself as split at the root, neither gentile nor Jew, Yankee nor rebel....”

Interviewee(s): Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-18

1960s “...Incidentally, back in the 1960s, a fly by night publisher in London made off with the only copy of a Godwin manuscript, and she's been looking for it ever since....”

Interviewee(s): Godwin, Gail
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-28

1960s “...Fame came quickly to Jerzy Kosinski in the 1960s after the publication of his novels...”

Interviewee(s): Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991
Broadcast circa: 1988-10-07

1960s “...After graduating from the University of Buffalo and working on a local newspaper, Ishmael Reed went to New York in the early 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-15

1960s “...In the late 1960s, he started working on a sinister novel about a young boy set in a small Connecticut town....”

Interviewee(s): Tryon, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-23

1960s “...The women of Barbara Raskin's generation were Depression babies who came of age in the '50s and '60s....”

Interviewee(s): Raskin, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-05

1960s “...By the late 60s and early 70s, black performers began to be more readily accepted into the white mainstream....”

Interviewee(s): Fox, Ted, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-27

1960s “...In his book Banned Films, co-author Roger Newman meticulously details the sensorship efforts directed at film making from the early 1900s to the demise of the sensor in the late 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Newman, Roger K.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-15

1960s “...A first novel by Frances Kazan, Good Night Little Sister, looks at the rock world of the late 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Kazan, Frances
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-21

1960s “...Trained as a doctor, Han Suyin gave up the practice of medicine in the mid '60s to write full time....”

Interviewee(s): Han, Suyin, 1917-2012
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-04

1960s “...I, myself, circulated a couple different novels all through the '60s, and I would sometimes meet ......”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-03

1960s “...Michael Crichton's book writing career goes back to the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-29

1960s “...It was in the mid 60s and after the publication of his first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, that John Nichols became politicized as an ardent opponent of the US role in Vietnam....”

Interviewee(s): Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-24

1960s “...In the 1960s, after he published "The Sterile Cuckoo", later a movie with Liza Minnelli, novelist John Nichols decided to write a major piece of fiction with a political message....”

Interviewee(s): Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-25

1960s “...I knew in the '60s and early '70s, many of them priests and nuns, many of them young, generous, and self sacrificing young people, had their lives altered completely, if not blown apart, by the Viet Nam War....”

Interviewee(s): Carroll, James, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-07

1960s “...Rod McKuen no longer sings publicly and has mixed feelings about his performing years of the '60s and '70s....”

Interviewee(s): McKuen, Rod
Broadcast circa:

1960s “...I was one of the disaffected, semi-disabled youth of the 60s, and I was wanting to examine some of the reasons for that disaffection of those who were and were not going to Vietnam....”

Interviewee(s): Woiwode, Larry
Broadcast circa: 1988-10-11

1960s “...New York was Mecca for aspiring novelist Larry Woiwode in the 1960s as a student at the university of Illinois, Woiwode had met New Yorker editor William Maxwell....”

Interviewee(s): Woiwode, Larry
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-01

1960s “...We were so used to thinking of ourselves as sick, and I can remember, in the early '60s, that no matter how pleasant an evening you might be spending with your friends, there was always a kind of obligatory moment during the course of the evening where you'd have to say, "Oh, God, we're all so sick."...”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-12

1960s “...The revolt was influenced by the rebellious nature of the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-12

1960s “...The book is sometimes shocking for its depictions of sordid male sex, for in the late 1950s and early '60s anonymous sex in public bathrooms seemed to be the only release....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-05

1960s “...Martin Luther King, the great Civil Rights leader, visited Don Newcombe in the middle 1960s, and he said to Don Newcombe, if there were no Jackie Robinson, there might not have been a Martin Luther King....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-11

1960s “...In the 1950s and '60s, Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset clashed head-on with the people who used to censor our books....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-22

1960s “...Strangely, Langston Hughes sat out the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-21

1960s “...Stanley Karnow was Chief Asian Correspondent for Time Magazine in the 50s and 60s and so had a ringside view of the war in Indochina....”

Interviewee(s): Karnow, Stanley
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-21

1960s “...In March 1988, the silent student community at Gallaudet University in Washington staged an uprising not unlike the student rebellions of the 1960s....”

Interviewee(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-02

1960s “...The writer, Robert Stone, admits that his preoccupation with psychedelic drugs in the 1960s took it's toll in terms of lost productivity....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-05

1960s “...Block's first hardcover book, published in the late 1960's, was Deadly Honeymoon, later made into a movie called Nightmare Honeymoon....”

Interviewee(s): Block, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-11

1960s “...I published my first poems in a Harper & Row anthology of teenage writers during the '60s....”

Interviewee(s): Flook, Maria
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-17

1960s “...He started his writing career with westerns, such as The Bounty Hunter and Hombre, but in the mid '60s he switched to crime....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-11

1960s “...Even though this was one of the last books to be attacked in this country, and in the 60s, it is still extremely shocking language....”

Interviewee(s): De Grazia, Edward, 1927-2013
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-02

1960s “...A far cry from the 50s and 60s, when he wore his counter-culture uniform, which included prayer shawls, beads, bells, bracelets, and a flowing, black beard....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-19

1960s “...In the 1960s, Allen Ginsberg, who heads anyone's list of beat generation figures, was declared persona non grata in communist Cuba and Czechoslovakia just as the FBI declared him a US security risk....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-20

1960 “...The United States is at last awakening from the nightmare of Vietnam, partially through the work of young writers who came of age in the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Mason, Bobbie Ann
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-03

1960 “...There are some people who had been educated there and you would expect would know better who can't tell the difference between 1960 and 1990....”

Interviewee(s): Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-12

1960 “...Ole Miss was the scene of major racial turbulence of the 1960's, but Barry Hannah says things are different today....”

Interviewee(s): Hannah, Barry
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-09

1960 “...One of the world's most beautiful women developed into a supermodel of the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Veruschka | Trülzsch, Holger
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-15

1960 “...Lehndorff is also an artist and former super model of the 1960's who called herself Veruschka when she appeared in the 1967 Antonioni film, Blowup....”

Interviewee(s): Veruschka | Trülzsch, Holger
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-16

1960 “...Morath met the playwright while she was taking pictures on the set of the movie The Misfits in 1960....”

Interviewee(s): Morath, Inge
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-18

1960 “...The author of Malcolm and In A Shallow Grave, Purdy has lived in New York City since 1960....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-14

1960 “...Purdy listened, and since 1960, has turned out some 30 books, novels, poetry and plays from a small room in Brooklyn....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-01

1960 “...By the time we in America came to the 1960's, it was almost as if anyone who preceded the arrival of The Beatles was called irrelevant....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-06

1960 “...Gerald Green remembers the anti-war student riots there in the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Green, Gerald
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-04

1960 “...William Wharton went to Paris in 1960 to work as a painter....”

Interviewee(s): Wharton, William
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-05

1960 “...That's novelist Robert Stone, a former member of the Merry Pranksters, the 1960's California-based, cult-like literary group....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-31

1960 “...Cott became obsessed with children's literature during the turbulent 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Cott, Jonathan
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-31

1960 “...Edna O'Brien was 24 when her first novel, The Country Girls was published in 1960....”

Interviewee(s): O'Brien, Edna
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-15

1960 “...Most of America's obscenity laws were rendered moot in the 1960's thanks to one man, Barney Rossit, the publisher of Grove Press....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, Cal | Vonnegut, Kurt | Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005 | Blume, Judy | Alter, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-06

1960 “...There is no better expert on espionage around than British writer John Gardner who has been writing spy novels since the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1926-2007
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-02

1960 “...Her new novel, Tripmaster Monkey, reflects Kingston's own coming of age in the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-27

1960 “...Atlas says his hero Ben is under heavy pressure because of the permissive sexual attitude of the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Atlas, James
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-26

1960 “...Art Garfunkel, singing with Paul Simon, who blazed new trails in popular music in the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Garfunkel, Art
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-24

1960 “...In March 1988, the silent student community at Gallaudet University in Washington staged an uprising not unlike the student rebellions of the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-21

1960 “...People began to say, "Okay, this is better than whatever you've done before," and I got some encouragement from Saul Bellow, who had come in as a visiting professor to the University of Puerto Rico in 1960....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-24

1961 “...Ernest Hemingway put a shotgun to this head in 1961 and ended his life....”

Interviewee(s): Jenks, Tom, 1950-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-23

1961 “...Geoffrey Wolff's novel is both moving and funny, and says a lot about class differences, especially those at Princeton from which Wolff graduated in 1961....”

Interviewee(s): Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-12

1961 “...People may remember back in 1961, President Kennedy made a big push for fallout shelters....”

Interviewee(s): Zuckerman, Edward
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-27

1961 “...Tennessee Williams was from 1944 to 1961, not only our most controversial playwright, but our most successful, our most poetic, our most highly compensated....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-03

1961 “...In 1961 Murray went over to the writing side of the New Yorker....”

Interviewee(s): Murray, William, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-04

1961 “...Heller was not about to leave his day job in advertising and promotion when Catch 22 came out in 1961....”

Interviewee(s): Heller, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-09

1961 “...And when Catch 22 first appeared in 1961, it was almost entitled something else....”

Interviewee(s): Heller, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-27

1961 “...Ernest Hemingway was loyal to Scribner's until that sad day in 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho, when he killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound....”

Interviewee(s): Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-31

1961 “...He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1961....”

Interviewee(s): Mehta, Ved, 1934-
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-23

1961 “...Between that period and his death in 1961, he never wrote another word....”

Interviewee(s): Johnson, Diane, 1934-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-09

1961 “...It was Mary who in 1961 suggested that Francis try his hand at a novel....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-07

1961 “...It was written at a time when this was beginning to happen to me, back in, I wrote that novel back in 1961....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-16

1961 “...He was born in 1961 and raised in Vancouver, Canada....”

Interviewee(s): Coupland, Douglas
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-13

1962 “...His first novel, The Steagle, was a kind of offshoot to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Faust, Irvin
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-15

1962 “...And in 1962, he published his first novel Men which made him famous overnight....”

Interviewee(s): Dilke, Annabel, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-09

1962 “...1962 was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John and Elaine were in their home on Long Island....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-20

1962 “...Sidney Zion left the law, when an old college pal decided to put out a satirical newspaper in 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Zion, Sidney
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-14

1962 “...That's where he met Father Flye, and he corresponded with the priest for the rest of his life leaving behind an extraordinary body of letters that were first published in 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Bergreen, Laurence
Broadcast circa: 1984-09-24

1962 “...Fuentes scathing criticism of the United States prompted the government to bar him from the US from 1962 to 1989....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-19

1962 “...That's Fred Rogers, who was Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood on television, has entertained and educated children and adults since 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Rogers, Fred
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-06

1962 “...Robert Stone started his first novel, 'A Hall of Mirrors', in 1962, but it was years before it was finished....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-01

1962 “...Douglas Terman began thinking about what was to become Shell Game after a dinner party in which the guests began questioning about what really happened during the 1962 missile crisis....”

Interviewee(s): Terman, Douglas, 1933-
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-22

1962 “...That was in 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-06

1962 “...In 1962, novelist John Updike taught a creative writing course for the summer at Harvard....”

Interviewee(s): Updike, John
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-03

1962 “...Because of its vivid sexuality, Henry Miller's masterpiece Tropic of Cancer, published in Paris in 1934, had to be smuggled into the United States until 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa:

1962 “...Thomas Mallon's thoughtful book about literary plagiarism, Stolen Words, is now a Penquin paperback, and Ticknor and Fields published Mallon's most recent novel, Aurora Seven, about a random group of people on a single day in 1962 when astronaut, Scott Carpenter, piloted his spaceship through a triple orbit around the earth....”

Interviewee(s): Mallon, Thomas, 1951-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-27

1962 “...published Mallon's critically praised novel, Aurora 7, about the lives of several disparate people on a single historic day in 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Mallon, Thomas, 1951-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-28

1962 “...Specifically Gardens of Stone deals with the old guard in which Proffitt served as a sergeant in 1962 and 63....”

Interviewee(s): Proffitt, Nicholas, 1943-2006
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-02

1962 “...But P.D. James was in her 40's by the time she published her first book, Cover Her Face, in 1962....”

Interviewee(s): James, P. D.
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-21

1962 “...Three years later, he joined Reuters which sent him to Paris in 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-25

1962 “...Forsyth started out as a news reporter and worked for Reuters in Paris in 1962....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa:

1962 “...In 1962, that novel did especially well in England....”

Interviewee(s): Lurie, Alison
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-15

1962 “...Out of Hamilton College in 1962, would-be writer John Nichols headed to Spain, where he drafted a novel he called The Sterile Cuckoo....”

Interviewee(s): Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-26

1962 “...This is the sad story of Stein and Day, the feisty publishing house founded in 1962 by Sol Stein and his wife, Patricia Day....”

Interviewee(s): Stein, Sol
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-19

1962 “...Since 1962, I have earned a living from writing....”

Interviewee(s): Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-18

1962 “...In 1962, as a movie writer and director, he found himself out of work because of a writer's strike....”

Interviewee(s): Clavell, James
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-19

1963 “...And a lot of people, of course, said, "With the assassination of John F. Kennedy in '63."...”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-30

1963 “...Joan Didion said when she left New York in '63, said it was like leaving an eight-year hangover....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1963 “...Her first book was a collection of short stories published in 1963....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-01

1963 “...Vicki Goldberg says that throughout her career, Margaret Bourke-White kept as a secret the fact that her father was Jewish, carefully keeping it out of her autobiography, which she published in 1963....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-13

1963 “...He took his children's show to Canada for a year, but came back to Pittsburgh in 1963 to stay....”

Interviewee(s): Rogers, Fred
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-08

1963 “...In 1963, he suffered the loss of his longtime friend, companion, assistant, I love her, Frank Merlo....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-06

1963 “...he'd become a writer when he retired from the military in 1963....”

Interviewee(s): Terman, Douglas, 1933-
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-22

1963 “...The book review he wanted was the New York Review of Books, which made its debut in 1963 during a newspaper strike....”

Interviewee(s): Epstein, Jason
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-20

1963 “...A copy of Where the Wild Things Are, which was published in 1963, just 20 years ago for $4.95, would fetch today $100 or $150....”

Interviewee(s): International Antiquarian Book Fair (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-28

1963 “...To her amazement, "A Summer Birdcage," was published in 1963....”

Interviewee(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-09

1963 “...Our best selling title of the year by far is a book called Where The Wild Things Are, which was first published in 1963....”

Interviewee(s): Allender, David
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-23

1963 “...I joined the Peace Corps in '63 and went to Central Africa to a place called Nyasaland, which is now called Malawi....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-21

1963 “...Here was a guy walking around with a manuscript on his arm, trying to tell a publisher this is a story about an assassin trying to shoot Charles de Gaulle in 1963....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa:

1963 “...Clavell became a US citizen in 1963....”

Interviewee(s): Clavell, James
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-20

1964 “...Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1964, but refused it for reasons that are not entirely clear....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-08

1964 “...Faulk's 1964 book, Fear on Trial, which tells of his blacklisting during the McCarthy era, has been reissued by the University of Texas press with a new forward by Studs Terkel....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-18

1964 “...His story is told in Fear on Trial, originally published in 1964 and now reissued with a new introduction by Studs Terkel....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-19

1964 “...He was best known as a humorist but his 1964 book, Fear on Trial, is a frightening look at the McCarthy era paranoia that cost Faulk his career....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-22

1964 “...It's a great tribute that people are still talking about an essay written almost 30 years ago, I guess it was 1964....”

Interviewee(s): Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Broadcast circa: 1992-10-07

1964 “...The book was Running Scared, published in 1964 when McDonald was 23....”

Interviewee(s): Mcdonald, Gregory, 1937-2008
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-05

1964 “...The psychedelic bus careened across the country in 1964, winding up in New York for a party that is still being talked about....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-20

1964 “...He drove the bus when the bus went across the country in 1964, the Kesey Bus, Neal Cassady was driving....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-31

1964 “...That first Wexford novel was From Doon With Death, published in 1964....”

Interviewee(s): Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015
Broadcast circa: 1991-01-08

1964 “...In 1964, when Irini Spanidou was 18 and barely able to speak a word of English, she went to the United States from her native Greece to study at Sarah Lawrence....”

Interviewee(s): Spanidou, Irini
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-28

1964 “...Before the Bond books, Gardner already had an established reputation as the author of popular espionage novels, the first of which was a spy spoof called "The Liquidators" in 1964....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1926-2007
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-19

1964 “...Mark Helprin was 17 in 1964 and was traveling around Europe with a knapsack on his back....”

Interviewee(s): Helprin, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1991-08-28

1964 “..." The pieces are personal, they are, I intended the book to be personal and to be a selective sort of autobiography of the 20 years from '64 to '84....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-09

1964 “...I was actually thinking of calling the book "Writing for Money," and have the first piece, well the first piece is called "On the Edge of the Great Rift," and say at the end of it: appeared in 1964, in The Christian Science Monitor, earned 50 dollars....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-09

1965 “...In Cold Blood is the story of these six people, brothers, who died together November 15, 1959 and Carrie Smith and Richard Hitchcock who were hanged April 14, 1965, and my book is the story of their lives and their deaths....”

Interviewee(s): Clarke, Gerald, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-10

1965 “...He ran for Mayor of New York as the Conservative Party candidate in 1965....”

Interviewee(s): Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-24

1965 “...In 1965, English writer John Fowles interrupted work on a novel called The Magus to knock out a short and successful book about a bizarre kidnapping, titled, The Collector....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-08

1965 “...Salinger's last published work was a short story in The New Yorker in 1965....”

Interviewee(s): Hamilton, Ian, 1938-2001
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-21

1965 “...Edward R. Murrow died in 1965, but A.M. Sperber says, "He will be long remembered....”

Interviewee(s): Sperber, A. M. (Ann M.), 1935-1994
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-24

1965 “...Kosinski's first novel, "The Painted Bird" in 1965, was about a child's trip across the landscape of war in Eastern Europe, and received mixed reviews and moderate sales until the paperback edition with a cover showing a monstrous figure with a huge beak carrying an innocent child in a basket....”

Interviewee(s): Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991
Broadcast circa: 1988-10-05

1965 “...The original Blackstone the Magician died in 1965; but his son, Harry Jr., has followed in the footsteps of his famous father and writes about it in The Blackstone Book of Magic and Illusion....”

Interviewee(s): Blackstone, Harry
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-01

1965 “...I was put on by J. Edgar Hoover on a dangerous security list in '65 just at the same time that I was being kicked out of Cuba for criticizing Castro for his persecution of gays....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-20

1966 “...Since 1966, no book has been successfully prosecuted by the government....”

Interviewee(s): Talese, Gay | Parker, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-03

1966 “...But in 1966, it was....”

Interviewee(s): Westlake, Donald E.
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-16

1966 “...Drafted into the military in 1966, Robin Cook found he had lots of free time on submarine duty and he began that book....”

Interviewee(s): Cook, Robin, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-26

1966 “...The New York World and his later incarnations went out of business by 1966....”

Interviewee(s): Flatt, Jane D.
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-18

1966 “...A movie called Fantastic Voyage was in the works in 1966, and the producers went to science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, to ask him to write a novelization of the screenplay....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-21

1966 “...Sloan Wilson now makes his home in Florida where between 1966 and 1973, he and his wife lived on an old yacht....”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-16

1966 “...While Piers Anthony has published close to 60 books of fantasy and science fiction since 1966, he insists he is not a fast writer....”

Interviewee(s): Anthony, Piers
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-03

1966 “...That's Piers Anthony, author of nearly 60 books of fantasy and science fiction since his first published novel in 1966, Chthon....”

Interviewee(s): Anthony, Piers
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-04

1966 “...The very first book written by William Gass, called Omensetter's Luck, was published in 1966 and had a shaky start....”

Interviewee(s): Gass, William H., 1924-
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-06

1966 “...In April, 1966, he was having quite a serious back operation and she was his nurse....”

Interviewee(s): Mott, Michael, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-12

1966 “...Robert Coover has been taken seriously from the time of his first novel, The Origin of the Brunists in 1966....”

Interviewee(s): Coover, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-04

1966 “...Walt Disney chainsmoked his way to lung cancer and died in 1966 on his 65th birthday....”

Interviewee(s): Mosley, Leonard, 1913-1992
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-21

1966 “...Macmillan published Three Cheers and a Tiger in 1966....”

Interviewee(s): McDowell, Edwin
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-10

1966 “...The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the first new, single-volume, unabridged dictionary since 1966, adds 50,000 new words and 75,000 new definitions....”

Interviewee(s): Flexner, Stuart Berg
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-29

1966 “...He won a National Book Award in 1966....”

Interviewee(s): Dickey, James
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-31

1966 “...Robert Barnard now lives in Leeds, England after teaching in Norway since 1966....”

Interviewee(s): Barnard, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-13

1966 “...Her first novel was published in 1966....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Alice, 1926-1999
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-19

1967 “...Trillin began his U.S. journal series in 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Trillin, Calvin
Broadcast circa: 1984-02-03

1967 “...You probably recognize the voice, Charles Kuralt, who has been broadcasting his On the Road television reports for CBS News since 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-17

1967 “...Charles Kuralt should know, his reports of the people who live in small town America have been broadcast by CBS News since 1967 and more than 90 of those stories have been collected in a book called On the Road with Charles Kuralt....”

Interviewee(s): Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-02

1967 “...I covered both of the 1967, the Six-Day War and the October War in Israel....”

Interviewee(s): Gold, Herbert, 1924-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-27

1967 “...Stein and Day has reissued as a paperback, Kazan's most successful book, The Arrangement, which originally appeared in 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Kazan, Elia
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-15

1967 “...His best-selling 1967 novel, The Arrangement, has been reissued as a paperback by Stein and Day....”

Interviewee(s): Kazan, Elia
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-16

1967 “...Langston Hughes, who died in 1967, was a traveler and, as a Black, suffered the indignity of racial discrimination common in the US during his lifetime....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-20

1967 “...In 1970, Oates won the National Book Award for her novel, Them, about the Detroit race riots of 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-01

1967 “...You might recall her in the 1967 Antonioni movie Blowup....”

Interviewee(s): Veruschka | Trülzsch, Holger
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-15

1967 “...Lehndorff is also an artist and former super model of the 1960's who called herself Veruschka when she appeared in the 1967 Antonioni film, Blowup....”

Interviewee(s): Veruschka | Trülzsch, Holger
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-16

1967 “...I wouldn't have known how to, to re-enter the consciousness of 1967-68 when I wrote that....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-05

1967 “...I had called it back then, this is 1967, "A Rumor of War," and it started off as an autobiographical novel, I in fact began writing it while I was still in the Marine Corps....”

Interviewee(s): Caputo, Philip
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-23

1967 “...They were published in Italy in 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Aksenov, Vasiliĭ, 1932-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-24

1967 “...So when 'A Hall of Mirrors' was finally published in 1967 and won a Faulkner Award as Best First Novel, Stone was surprised, relieved and pleased....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-01

1967 “...James Ennes Jr. was a Navy lieutenant on that tragic day of June 8th, 1967 on board the USS Liberty....”

Interviewee(s): Ennes, James M.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-07

1967 “...In June 1967, 34 Americans died, another 171 wounded when Israeli jets and torpedo boats attacked the U.S. spy ship, Liberty, during the six-day war....”

Interviewee(s): Ennes, James M.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-08

1967 “...Many of his pictures such as the one one of a girl thrusting a daisy at a soldier's fixed bayonet during a peace demonstration in Washington in 1967 are showcased in his book Photographs at Home and Abroad....”

Interviewee(s): Riboud, Marc
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-06

1967 “...but it was published in 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-21

1967 “...In 1967 there was an ad in the local paper that would be a creative writing class sponsored by The Y, taught by a woman, Jean Dewitt Fitz who had written some mystery novels....”

Interviewee(s): Shivers, Louise
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-21

1967 “...Langston Hughes died of bronchial pneumonia on May 22nd, 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Rampersad, Arnold
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-22

1967 “...S.E. Hinton is satisfied that what happens in The Outsiders is as real today, as it was in 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Hinton, S. E.
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-14

1967 “...S.E. Hinton says she had a major writer's block after the publication of her first book, The Outsiders, in 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Hinton, S. E.
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-15

1967 “...Despite his preoccupation with drugs, Robert Stone finally finished A Hall of Mirrors, which won The Faulkner Award as the best first novel of 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-06

1967 “...Donleavy was living in London in 1967, a city in which the novelist saw his first success, The Ginger Man....”

Interviewee(s): Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-26

1967 “...Craig Nova graduated from Berkeley in 1967 and went on to Columbia, where the late writer Jane Stafford became his mentor....”

Interviewee(s): Nova, Craig
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-10

1967 “...Elmore Leonard switched to crime fiction in 1967, starting with The Big Bounce, which the Mysterious Press has republished in a limited edition....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-12

1968 “...His first novel, The Cement Garden, was published in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-29

1968 “...Irving's first novel, Setting Free the Bears, published in 1968, and his other early books, were largely overlooked....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, John, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-31

1968 “...John Steinbeck died in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-22

1968 “...So he left Dial in 1968 to finish "The Book of Daniel," based on the Rosenberg atomic spy case, filmed in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-04

1968 “...Miller composed his first book in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Miller, J. P. (James Pinckney), 1919-2001
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-28

1968 “...For Richard Schickel, it all started in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Schickel, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-18

1968 “...Fans of novelist philosopher, Ayn Rand, were shocked when in 1968, she broke with her chief disciple, Nathaniel Branden....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Nathaniel
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-15

1968 “...After his break with novelist philosopher Ayn Rand in 1968, Nathaniel Branden left New York to open a practice in psychotherapy in Los Angeles....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Nathaniel
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-16

1968 “...That's Nathaniel Branden, one-time disciple of the founder of a philosophical movement known as, Objectivism, and whose relationship with Ayn Rand came to a screeching halt in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Nathaniel
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-11

1968 “...And his next book, we'll look at the secret history of America from 1957 to 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-10

1968 “...Adams's claims credit for a milestone anti-pollution law, Britain's Clean Air Act of 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Richard, 1920-2016
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-11

1968 “...Another William Gass novel, Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, published in 1968, plays with words, but Gass describes the book as an artistic manifesto....”

Interviewee(s): Gass, William H., 1924-
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-06

1968 “...Merton's mysterious death occurred in Bangkok in 1968, where he had addressed a conference....”

Interviewee(s): Mott, Michael, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-12

1968 “...And that novel was 'The Sporting Club' in 1968 which came out to good reviews....”

Interviewee(s): McGuane, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-22

1968 “...No new censorship boards have been formed since the system was started in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Newman, Roger K.
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-16

1968 “...Francis' novel Blood Sport, published in America in 1968, was about the kidnapping of an English racehorse which was taken to Wyoming for stud purposes....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-18

1968 “...We went back for a test year in 1968, I went to a university as a writer in residence just to see how the kids would adjust....”

Interviewee(s): Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-12

1968 “...I did the same thing in 1968 with Myra Breckenridge....”

Interviewee(s): Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-17

1968 “...You know, this was published in '68...”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Lee, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1990-04-23

1968 “...Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the author of a new novel, Love in the Days of Rage, which explores the relationship between two people during the French Student Rebellion in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-01

1968 “...It was spring of 1968, and the time of the student revolution....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-02

1968 “...Lawrence Ferlinghetti sees the 1968 student rebellion as a worldwide protest against the dehumanization of men and women....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-02

1968 “...The book is really an attempt to revivify the best part of the spirit of '68 in a time that is today when spirit is really needed again....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-02

1968 “...Ferlinghetti's most recent novel is called Love in the Days of Rage, a love story set in the smoke of the 1968 student rebellion in Paris, now an Obelisk Dutton paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-26

1968 “...Robert Stone's first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, was published in 1968, then Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, and the latest, Children of Light, which deals with a desperate group of movie makers on the Mexican coast....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-05

1968 “...The last time he was sick was in 1968....”

Interviewee(s): Breslin, Jimmy
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-08

1969 “...I began in 1969 traveling state-to-state, and I went back again and again, and so there's practically no state in the Union...”

Interviewee(s): Peirce, Neal R.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-29

1969 “...In 1969, one of Markov's plays was being read before Bulgaria's Cultural Committee....”

Interviewee(s): Dilke, Annabel, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-09

1969 “...But he has specialized in fiction since 1969....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-16

1969 “...The writer Dotson Rader first met Tennessee Williams in 1969 and relates the story in his personal memoir about the late playwright, Tennessee, Cry of the Heart....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-04

1969 “...So in 1969, when Ballantine was asked to head the first clown college, at the Ringing Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, he jumped at the chance....”

Interviewee(s): Ballantine, Bill, 1911-1999
Broadcast circa: 1982-05

1969 “...Her first novel, Aspire to the Heavens, in 1969 was a novelized biography of George Washington for young readers which arrived with no fanfare....”

Interviewee(s): Clark, Mary Higgins
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-31

1969 “...The Indians have been writing since the late 1800s, but there really hasn't been a kind of explosion of that writing, particularly in fiction, drama and poetry, 'til after 1969....”

Interviewee(s): King, Thomas, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-05

1969 “...Disaffected radical, Thomas Sanchez, fled his native California in 1969 to live in Spain....”

Interviewee(s): Sanchez, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-19

1969 “...Wright arrived in Vietnam in December of 1969 and found that drugs had taken over....”

Interviewee(s): Wright, Stephen, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-17

1969 “...Beckett, who won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1969, lives in Paris, a near recluse....”

Interviewee(s): Altschul, Charles
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-19

1969 “...That novel was called The Husband, published in 1969, and it was so successful that Sol Stein went back to his typewriter....”

Interviewee(s): Stein, Sol
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-15

1969 “...New York Quarterly was founded by William Packard in 1969 and became known for its in-depth interviews with well-known poets....”

Interviewee(s): Packard, William
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-28

1969 “...John Hartford, who is a three-time Grammy winner, published his first book in 1969, a collection of poems called Word Movies....”

Interviewee(s): Hartford, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-27

1969 “...Vachss went to Briafra in 1969 to determine why aid sent to that war torn country wasn't reaching its victims....”

Interviewee(s): Vachss, Andrew H.
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-26

1969 “...And I think the wonderful thing that happened with gay liberation in 1969 is that suddenly there was a different vocabulary that was given to people and it was a political one....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-01

1969 “...Scott Spencer graduated from the University of Wisconsin, in 1969, intending to make it as a novelist, but it wasn't easy....”

Interviewee(s): Spencer, Scott
Broadcast circa: 1986-06-24

1969 “...Edmund White says gay liberation began in 1969, after a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-06

1969 “...William Kennedy got off to a promising start as a novelist in 1969 with The Ink Truck, but it would be 15 years before he would ensure his place among the nation's literary stars....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-25

1970s “...Richler first started Solomon Gursky in the 1970s, but finally buckled down five years ago after moving to a country home in Canada....”

Interviewee(s): Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-12

1970s “...In the 70s there was a burst of writing of problem novels, which the librarians loved for young adults....”

Interviewee(s): Lipson, Eden Ross
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-09

1970s “...Dennis Smith became the country's most famous firefighter after he wrote Report from Engine Co. 82 in the early '70s....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Dennis, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-14

1970s “...New England, which was a sick man in the mid 1970's with an employment rate worse than the United States as a whole, has been on an average 3% below the national unemployment rate in this recession, and the reason is the immense boom in high technology....”

Interviewee(s): Peirce, Neal R.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-30

1970s “...In the mid '70s, the urban experts were saying these cities are doomed....”

Interviewee(s): Peirce, Neal R.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-30

1970s “...Since the mid 1970's we have had the biggest center city building boom in the history of the United States....”

Interviewee(s): Peirce, Neal R.
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-30

1970s “...In the 1970s, the French writer Dominique Lapierre, co-author of...”

Interviewee(s): Lapierre, Dominique
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-25

1970s “...Gerald Clarke was at a swimming pool with Capote in the early 1970s and had just read a chapter from a novel in progress in which Truman told stories out of school about his about his society friends....”

Interviewee(s): Clarke, Gerald, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-11

1970s “...When he visited the USSR for the first time in the 1970s Smith stood outside a militsiya headquarters mentally taking notes....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-05

1970s “...In the 1970s, he served 17 months in prison for bilking McGraw-Hill into paying him 750,000 dollars for a biography of Howard Hughes that turned out to be a hoax....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-13

1970s “...It fictionalizes the key events of the 60s and 70s....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-15

1970s “...In Dutch Shea, Jr., I took the Irish experience a generation or maybe two generations down the road into the 1970s....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-15

1970s “...John Gregory Dunne's latest novel is The Red, White and Blue, a fictionalized treatment of the major events of the 60s and 70s as seen through the eyes of a wealthy Irish- American family in California....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-16

1970s “...For Gordon Lish, editing The Quarterly is almost like those boom days in the '70s, when as fiction editor for Eqsuire magazine, he was happily searching out new voices in fiction....”

Interviewee(s): Lish, Gordon
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-14

1970s “...In the late 1970's the number of gay writers got together monthly in New York to read and critique each other's work....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-17

1970s “...In the mid 1970s, a former associated press reporter named Armistead Maupin, began writing a weekly serial for a San Francisco newspaper....”

Interviewee(s): Maupin, Armistead
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-27

1970s “..."Whereas we have our Thomas Maughan, we have our Tolstoy, "who were writing in their 60s and 70s "and beyond for that matter."...”

Interviewee(s): Dardis, Tom
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-14

1970s “...As a precocious young writer in the early 70s, Joyce Maynard dropped out of Yale to live with a reclusive author J.D. Salinger in New Hampshire....”

Interviewee(s): Maynard, Joyce, 1953-
Broadcast circa: 1992-03-11

1970s “...Then I met Holger in the '70s, and he got very interested in what I had done before....”

Interviewee(s): Veruschka | Trülzsch, Holger
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-15

1970s “...That's Joseph Wambaugh, who wasn't the most popular cop on the Los Angelos police force back in the 1970s, at least not with the police brass....”

Interviewee(s): Wambaugh, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-29

1970s “...The very same writers in the 60s and 70s wrote nihilistic, gloomy books....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1933-1982 | Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-05

1970s “...In the 70s it really caught up with him....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-11

1970s “...Gradually in the early 70s slipped into a kinda state where he didn't work much and couldn't really function....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-11

1970s “...Susan Brownmiller, whose books Against Our Will and Femininity rode the crest of the women's movement of the 1970s....”

Interviewee(s): Brownmiller, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-21

1970s “...But born in Brooklyn and educated at Cornell, Susan Brownmiller was a writer at ABC in the Village Voice before producing one of the 70s major feminist books, Against Our Will, Men, Women and Rape....”

Interviewee(s): Brownmiller, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-08

1970s “...Jill McCorkle's moving coming-of-age novel of a young girl in the 1970s is Ferris Beach, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill....”

Interviewee(s): McCorkle, Jill, 1958-
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-29

1970s “...Ferris Beach explores the world of a young girl, her family and friends, in the early 1970's....”

Interviewee(s): McCorkle, Jill, 1958-
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-30

1970s “...In the early 1970s, Erdman started his own Swiss bank....”

Interviewee(s): Erdman, Paul, 1932-2007
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-12

1970s “...But Jong notes that a feminist backlash began in the 1970s and prevails to this day....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa:

1970s “...It was in the early 1970's, a young woman named Erica Jong had published a controversial, sexually explicit novel that became a best seller....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa:

1970s “...Anne Rice sank her teeth in the vampire legend in the mid 1970's....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-26

1970s “...I saw people like say, Yvtushenko, in the 70s as bridging the two worlds, East and West....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, D. M.
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-21

1970s “...In the early 1970s, publisher Sol Stein moved the firm of Stein and Day, which he runs with his wife, out of Manhattan, and set up shop at a mansion in the Westchester County suburbs....”

Interviewee(s): Stein, Sol
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-17

1970s “...Machine Dreams focuses on a single family from the 1930s through the 70s with each family member coming forward to reveal the sorrows and joys of his or her life....”

Interviewee(s): Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-21

1970s “...By the late 60s and early 70s, black performers began to be more readily accepted into the white mainstream....”

Interviewee(s): Fox, Ted, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-27

1970s “...In the early 1970s, writer Avery Corman was new to the fiction game....”

Interviewee(s): Corman, Avery
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-21

1970s “...And I was in the movement in those days, was the early 70's....”

Interviewee(s): Simon, Roger L. (Roger Lichtenberg), 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-19

1970s “...He still in the Communist Party, only making that admission in the early 70s, and he teaches writing on a college level....”

Interviewee(s): Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
Broadcast circa: 1982-02-19

1970s “...I knew in the '60s and early '70s, many of them priests and nuns, many of them young, generous, and self sacrificing young people, had their lives altered completely, if not blown apart, by the Viet Nam War....”

Interviewee(s): Carroll, James, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-07

1970s “...Rod McKuen no longer sings publicly and has mixed feelings about his performing years of the '60s and '70s....”

Interviewee(s): McKuen, Rod
Broadcast circa:

1970s “...Michael Dorris, who taught anthropology at Dartmouth for 15 years, was a single man in the early 1970s when he became the first bachelor to adopt a child....”

Interviewee(s): Dorris, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-24

1970s “...In the early 70's, Harry Blackstone Jr. worked with the Smothers Brothers, who steered him to a Los Angeles bank, where Harry borrowed enough money to open an act....”

Interviewee(s): Blackstone, Harry
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-02

1970s “...Back in the early 1970s though, Straub was a graduate student in Dublin, Ireland, and spent more time working on a novel than on his Ph.D....”

Interviewee(s): Straub, Peter, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-03

1970s “...In the 1970s, journalist Carl Bernstein was caught up in a national trauma, Watergate, and...”

Interviewee(s): Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-15

1970s “...Their traditions are so strong that once there was relaxation in the late 70s, the Muslims are back praying again in the mosques in Kashkar and the Tibetans are rebuilding some of their monasteries even though there were only nine monasteries left out of 2700....”

Interviewee(s): Rowell, Galen A.
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-02

1970s “...Clifford Irving was jailed for 17 months after conning a publishing house out of $750,000 for a phony autobiography of Howard Hughes in the 1970s....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-18

1970 “...In 1970 he won an Oscar for scripting Mash....”

Interviewee(s): Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-16

1970 “...When William Donahey died in 1970, his characters died with him....”

Interviewee(s): Cahn, Joseph M.
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-11

1970 “...I think it was 1970, and took it to Green Haven....”

Interviewee(s): Conners, Bernard F.
Broadcast circa: 1983-05

1970 “...Thomas McMahon's first book was published in 1970....”

Interviewee(s): McMahon, Thomas A., 1943-1999
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-04

1970 “...In the 1970's Nabokov living in Switzerland where he was to die in 1977, authorized Andrew Field to write a biography but was not pleased with the results....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-11

1970 “...In Dutch Shea, Jr, I took the Irish experience a generation, or maybe two generations down the road into the 1970's....”

Interviewee(s): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-01

1970 “...In 1970, Oates won the National Book Award for her novel, Them, about the Detroit race riots of 1967....”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-01

1970 “...The most recent book by Oates, who won the National Book Award in 1970, is Because It Is Bitter, and...”

Interviewee(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-03

1970 “...Her novel The Elected Member won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1970, and that meant major changes in her life....”

Interviewee(s): Rubens, Bernice
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-27

1970 “...Hayes met Michener in 1970 when the prolific author of Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii, and Centennial went to Kent to write about the National Guard killings of students during a protest....”

Interviewee(s): Hayes, John Phillip, 1949-
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-26

1970 “...Zuckerman says renewed concern about nuclear war came in the 1970's when the government sought to replace the missiles, submarines, and bombers that were built in the 1950's....”

Interviewee(s): Zuckerman, Edward
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-28

1970 “...Susan Brownmiller, whose books, Against our Will, and Femininity rode the crest of the women's movement of the 1970's....”

Interviewee(s): Brownmiller, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-07

1970 “...I have no geographical root, but I find myself very much rooted in this time period, which is the end of the second World War II, about 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Bourjaily, Vance, 1922-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-11

1970 “...One was published in Playboy back in 1970, and a couple in newspapers....”

Interviewee(s): O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-06

1970 “...Miłosz was a programmer for Polish National Radio from 1935 and 1939, became active in the Polish Resistance during World War Two, and later served in the diplomatic service, but he severed his ties to the Polish government and came to America, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Miłosz, Czesław
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-07

1970 “...Paul Erdman went to a Swiss university, was married to a Swiss wife, was able to get his hands on a couple a million dollars, so in the 1970's, he started his own little Swiss bank....”

Interviewee(s): Erdman, Paul, 1932-2007
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-26

1970 “...Random House in 1970 won, demanded major changes in the book's prospective....”

Interviewee(s): Hotchner, A. E.
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-01

1970 “...Instead, she studied English and published her first novel, The Edible Woman, in 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-08

1970 “...Godwin was 30 when that novel, The Perfectionist, was published in 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Godwin, Gail
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-29

1970 “...The Buick I drive, 1970 Buick, is still available on every weekend....”

Interviewee(s): Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991
Broadcast circa: 1988-10-06

1970 “...It was gonna be The Naked and the Dead of 1970, and he said no actually....”

Interviewee(s): DeMille, Nelson
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-05

1970 “...It ends in 1970, with the father's death....”

Interviewee(s): Nixon, Cornelia
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-25

1970 “...Joe McGinniss had just finished his book about Alaska, Going to Extremes, when a savage triple murder in 1970 came back into the news....”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-29

1970 “...The Long Beach Police Officers Association was going to hold a disco dance to raise funds for the defense of Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, the former green beret who was first accused in 1970 of having killed his wife and children at Fort Bragg...”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-29

1970 “...Former green beret doctor, Jeffrey MacDonald is serving life in prison for the murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1970....”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-30

1970 “...MacDonald was charged with the murder shortly after the killings in 1970, but the charges were dropped....”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-19

1970 “...By this time, it was January of 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-25

1970 “...Five novels since 1970, starting with The Day of the Jackal, but his books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, not even counting his best seller, The Fourth Protocol....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-26

1970 “...But quit in 1970 when the network refused to send him back to Africa....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa:

1970 “...We got to Aspen, but in 1970 the town was all hippies and dogs, so we pushed on in to Denver....”

Interviewee(s): Cussler, Clive
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-04

1970 “...Sayles got the idea for Los Gusanos in the 1970's, but it took more than 12 years for the book to become a reality....”

Interviewee(s): Sayles, John, 1950-
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-16

1970 “...The book prompted him to quit the Washington Post in 1970 to write full time....”

Interviewee(s): Just, Ward S.
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-27

1970 “...and that was the beginning of 1970 and I've been in it ever since....”

Interviewee(s): Blackstone, Harry
Broadcast circa: 1985-07-02

1970 “...But if you look at it this way, for good or worse, almost half the science fiction ever published has been published since 1970....”

Interviewee(s): Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson), 1925-
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-23

1970 “...Oh, for 17 months, in a federal prison, for conning McGraw-Hill into paying him $750,000 for what turned out to be a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes, but that was in the 1970's, and something Irving wants to forget....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-16

1971 “...Margaret Bourke-White died in 1971, but she left behind unforgettable images: Gandhi at his spinning wheel, survivors of Buchenwald, the Nazi bombardment of Moscow....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-11

1971 “...The surgery did slow the progress of Parkinson's disease but she died in 1971 at the age of 67....”

Interviewee(s): Goldberg, Vicki
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-15

1971 “...In 1971, Michael Dorris was 26 years old, a bachelor teaching anthropology when he adopted Adam, a three year old Sioux Indian boy....”

Interviewee(s): Dorris, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-11

1971 “...I was back from time to time, I was going between London and California at one point, and then in '71...”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-01

1971 “..., Knopf published The Other in 1971, and it was so successful that Tryon was afraid he would be type-cast as an author....”

Interviewee(s): Tryon, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-09

1971 “...Oh, God! Was published in 1971....”

Interviewee(s): Corman, Avery
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-20

1971 “...I met an old man in Tokyo, in about 1971 who had been an American citizen and had been drafted into the Japanese army because he had gone to Japan previous to the war and stayed too long....”

Interviewee(s): Wiley, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-24

1971 “...His publisher Random House says Ludlum's international thrillers have had combined sales of 25 million since The Scarlatti Inheritance in 1971....”

Interviewee(s): Ludlum, Robert, 1927-2001
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-16

1971 “...So, Robert Ludlum switched careers and began drafting what was to become his first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, in 1971....”

Interviewee(s): Ludlum, Robert, 1927-2001
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-17

1972 “...In 1972, Time Magazine put Clifford Irving on the cover and dubbed him "Con-Man of the Year....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1991-01-11

1972 “...Larry Collins first got the idea for his novel, Fall from Grace, in 1972 when he was having dinner with Lord Mountbatten who played a major role in planning the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II....”

Interviewee(s): Collins, Larry
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-14

1972 “...I find it very odd that there would be a celebration ten years later of Mr. Nixon's overwhelming 1972 election victory....”

Interviewee(s): Dean, John W. (John Wesley), 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-19

1972 “...When he died at the age of 74 in 1972, there were only two people at his funeral....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-20

1972 “...In 1972, writer, Pat Conroy, who's latest novel, The Prince Of Tides, is on the best seller list, wrote a book about his year as a teacher in a rural black grade school on an island off the South Carolina coast, called The Water...”

Interviewee(s): Conroy, Pat
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-03

1972 “...The Clifford Irving scandal was delicious news in 1972....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-14

1972 “...John Barth won the National Book Award in 1972 for Chimera....”

Interviewee(s): Barth, John, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-22

1972 “...When Murder Ink opened in '72, on Flag Day, it was the first mystery specialty bookstore anywhere in the world....”

Interviewee(s): Brener, Carol
Broadcast circa: 1983-06-14

1972 “...He was living in London, and it was May 15th, 1972,...”

Interviewee(s): Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-30

1972 “...And we returned to Canada in '72, and I've been in Montreal ever since....”

Interviewee(s): Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-12

1972 “...For 18 years, Richler did his writing in London, but has been back in his native Montreal since 1972....”

Interviewee(s): Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-13

1972 “...In 1972, while on duty as a fireman in the South Bronx, Smith wrote a bestseller, "Report from Engine Co. 82....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Dennis, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-31

1972 “...His life began to change after he wrote a best seller in 1972, Report From Engine Company 82....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Dennis, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-01

1972 “...Sayles earned a psychology degree from Williams in 1972, but found the degree wasn't marketable....”

Interviewee(s): Sayles, John, 1950-
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-17

1972 “...I'm convinced that Jackie Robinson's early death at the age of 53, in 1972, was really accountable to the pressures that he underwent in those early years....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-11

1972 “...The research libraries decided to stop using file cards back in 1972, switching over to computer-produced catalogs in book form....”

Interviewee(s): Henderson, James
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-13

1973 “...In 1973, William Katz started writing full time....”

Interviewee(s): Katz, William, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-02

1973 “...Erica Jong's 1973 novel, Fear of Flying, shocked some readers for its blunt language and vivid sex....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-19

1973 “...The first volume of Houseman's memoirs, Run-Through, appeared in 1973, starting with his childhood memories....”

Interviewee(s): Houseman, John, 1902-1988
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-12

1973 “...It focuses on his life from 1955 to 1973....”

Interviewee(s): Houseman, John, 1902-1988
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-12

1973 “...Tracy kidder's first published book was in 1973, The Road to Yuba City, about a mass murder in California....”

Interviewee(s): Kidder, Tracy
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-18

1973 “...Sloan Wilson now makes his home in Florida where between 1966 and 1973, he and his wife lived on an old yacht....”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-16

1973 “...My first recognizably adult novel was The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, which was published in 1973....”

Interviewee(s): Hoban, Russell
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-09

1973 “...Sometime in '73, I started writing "A Rumor of War" in the version that eventually was published in '77....”

Interviewee(s): Caputo, Philip
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-23

1973 “...In 1973 the democratically elected government of Chile's Salvador Allende was crushed and Allende killed in a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet....”

Interviewee(s): Dorfman, Ariel
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-25

1973 “...This came out in 1973 from a studio apartment....”

Interviewee(s): Henderson, Bill, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-13

1973 “...It came out in 1973, and she used the name H. B. Gilmour....”

Interviewee(s): Gilmour, H. B. (Harriet B.), 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-29

1973 “...I cruised across the Atlantic single-handed in '73 which I did totally privately and...”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Clare
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-23

1973 “...Jack Higgins first best seller was "The Savage Day" in 1973....”

Interviewee(s): Higgins, Jack, 1929-
Broadcast circa: 1987-05-06

1973 “...Moses Wine was created in 1973 when Roger Simon's editor asked for something different....”

Interviewee(s): Simon, Roger L. (Roger Lichtenberg), 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-19

1973 “...In 1957, Barney Rosset launched Evergreen Review, which published the shorter works of people like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and James Purdy, until the magazine's demise in 1973....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-21

1973 “...Evergreen Review flourished until 1973, when financial problems associated with Grove Press's book club caused its demise....”

Interviewee(s): Rosset, Barney
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-23

1973 “...Parker's first novel, The Godwulf Manuscript, in 1973, launched his Boston based private eye, Spenser....”

Interviewee(s): Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-21

1973 “...The book that emerged in 1973 was Fear of Flying, whose Portnoy-type heroine, Isadora Wing, returns in Parachutes and Kisses, recovering from another devastating divorce and in search of her Russian-Jewish roots with a good amount of sexual dallying along the way....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-30

1973 “...Erica Jong had always assumed that being an artist had nothing to do with making money, so she was not prepared for the success of her novel, Fear of Flying, in 1973....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-31

1973 “...There was a typesetter back in 1973 who would not set type on Fear of Flying, and it had to be sent to the second typesetter....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-31

1973 “...Mary Breasted was a general assignment reporter at the Times from 1973 to 1978 after a stint at the Village Voice and an education at Radcliffe....”

Interviewee(s): Breasted, Mary, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1982-05-16

1973 “...Breasted, who worked on the Times city desk from 1973 to '78, has written a cutting satire of her former newspaper called I Shouldn't Be Telling You This....”

Interviewee(s): Breasted, Mary, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1982-05-17

1974 “...Anne Sexton was 45 at the time of her death in 1974....”

Interviewee(s): Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-30

1974 “...Anne Sexton's tenth effort at suicide succeeded in 1974....”

Interviewee(s): Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-10

1974 “...I stayed working in the office and managing the office, and then we retired in 1974, sold everything and started hitting the road, and going to see the world while we were young enough to enjoy it....”

Interviewee(s): Dailey, Janet
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-24

1974 “...Smith is now facing the electric chair under New York's untested 1974 capital punishment law, which requires automatic execution for life term inmates who murder corrections officers....”

Interviewee(s): Conners, Bernard F.
Broadcast circa: 1983-05

1974 “...After college, Straughn signed on with Clarence Lovejoy, who died in 1974....”

Interviewee(s): Straughn, Charles T.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-03

1974 “...The first two Fletch books, Fletch in 1974 and Confess Fletch in 1976 both won Gregory McDonald Edgars for Best Mysteries....”

Interviewee(s): Mcdonald, Gregory, 1937-2008
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-04

1974 “...And I'm working on one, which I started in 1974, which I'll be through with I about five years, which I think is better than that one....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1933-1982 | Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-05

1974 “...Spenser made his debut in 1974 in Robert B. Parker's first novel...”

Interviewee(s): Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-21

1974 “...He's aged and he knows things he didn't know in 1974, responds more to complexity, probably understands that the choices are more limited than he used to think they were....”

Interviewee(s): Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-21

1974 “...In 1974, after nearly 17 months in prison, Irving moved to Long Island to rebuild his life....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-14

1974 “...The poet Anne Sexton, who died in 1974, had been given DES, a drug once used to prevent miscarriages....”

Interviewee(s): Sexton, Linda Gray, 1953-
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-19

1974 “...In 1974, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Anne Sexton started her car in the garage of her home in Western Massachusetts, and subsequently died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning....”

Interviewee(s): Sexton, Linda Gray, 1953-
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-20

1974 “...When Allan Gurganus sold a short story to The New Yorker in 1974, he thought it was the first installment on a long and lucrative literary career....”

Interviewee(s): Gurganus, Allan, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-26

1974 “...Since 1974 when I started publishing, I've had one to three rejection slips a week....”

Interviewee(s): Gurganus, Allan, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-26

1974 “...After living at the poverty level for years, Sanchez brought out "Rabbit Boss," the story of four generations of California Indians to rave reviews in 1974....”

Interviewee(s): Sanchez, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-30

1974 “...Erica Jong, whose most recent book pays tribute to the late Henry Miller, broke new ground with her novel, Fear of Flying, in 1974....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa:

1974 “...In 1974, actress Marlo Thomas conceived a book for young people that became a phenomenal success and led to a record and a TV special....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-21

1974 “...That's Christopher Cerf, the editor of Free to Be a Family, a sequel to the best-selling 1974 Marlo Thomas book, Free to Be You and Me....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-22

1974 “...To Be A Family is a sequel to the 1974 Marlo Thomas book for young people, Free...”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-23

1974 “...Stone's 1974 novel, Dog Soldiers, won a national book award and was also turned into a movie....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-06

1974 “...We could not run network television ads for the paperback of Fear of Flying in '74....”

Interviewee(s): Jong, Erica
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-31

1975 “...Duvall Hecht began to license and produce his books on tape in November of 1975....”

Interviewee(s): Hecht, Duvall
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-28

1975 “...And in 1975, he started telling those memoirs over Radio Free Europe....”

Interviewee(s): Dilke, Annabel, 1942-
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-09

1975 “...Harlequin bought her first novel in 1975, no quarter asked....”

Interviewee(s): Dailey, Janet
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-24

1975 “...I interviewed James Jones in 1975, and he admitted that World War II had been good to him....”

Interviewee(s): Jones, James, 1921-1977
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-09

1975 “...so it was very lucky that my hobby snowballed and I managed to get a job at the University of Virginia in 1975....”

Interviewee(s): Beattie, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-08

1975 “...Writer Joan Didion had the chance to reenter her past in 1975....”

Interviewee(s): Didion, Joan
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-27

1975 “...The writer, E. L. Doctorow, who's 1975 novel, "Ragtime", artfully blended real and imaginary events and people, in the early days of the 20th Century....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-05

1975 “..." It's a half-ton, Ford Econoline van, 1975....”

Interviewee(s): Heat Moon, William Least
Broadcast circa: 1983-02-17

1975 “...That's Gary Snyder, one of the original beat poets and winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for his book, Turtle Island....”

Interviewee(s): Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-03

1975 “...One day in 1975, the beat poet, Gary Snyder was at home in California working in the garage on his Jeep truck....”

Interviewee(s): Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-05

1975 “...But when I completed that in 1975 I was preoccupied by the idea of smuggling that....”

Interviewee(s): Aksenov, Vasiliĭ, 1932-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-25

1975 “...His experience in Vietnam led to his novel 'Dog Soliders', which won the National Book Award in 1975....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-01

1975 “...Murder charges against MacDonald were later dropped, but the case was reopened in 1975 when he was indicted....”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-29

1975 “...He'd first been approached in 1975, but wasn't able to break off from his movie to go to Raleigh for the trial....”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-29

1975 “...Clancy's novel, The Hunt for Red October stems from a real incident which took place in 1975 when some of the officers onboard a soviet frigate mutinied and tried to take the vessel to Sweden, they failed....”

Interviewee(s): Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-01

1975 “...In 1975, or thereabouts, I finished writing a novel called "The Final Fire....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Dennis, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-31

1975 “...Novelist James Carroll left the priesthood in 1975, disillusioned with the Catholic Church....”

Interviewee(s): Carroll, James, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-07

1975 “...In 1975 Mary Higgins Clark was paid a modest $3000 advance for her first suspense novel, "Where are the Children?"...”

Interviewee(s): Clark, Mary Higgins
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-08

1976 “...That was in 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Beattie, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-22

1976 “...Beattie's early New Yorker stories appeared in a collection called Distortions, in 1976, which was published at the same time as her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter....”

Interviewee(s): Beattie, Ann
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-08

1976 “...Mystery write, Agatha Christie, was 85 when she died in 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Morgan, Janet P.
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-17

1976 “...It first appeared in Africa in 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Cook, Robin, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1987-05-13

1976 “...Schuett came to the United States to stay in 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Shute, Jenefer
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-10

1976 “...She says her literary orientation stems from the fact that there was no television in South Africa until 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Shute, Jenefer
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-10

1976 “...Her 1976 book, Interview with a Vampire, is a valuable edition to the genre, and now Anne Rice is out with a sequel, The Vampire Lestat, in which the vampire awakens in New Orleans after a 55 year rest, becomes a rock star, and writes a best-selling autobiography....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-03

1976 “...So, in 1976, Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire appeared....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-04

1976 “...He was in his late-30s when he wrote The Year the Lights Came On, in 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Kay, Terry
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-29

1976 “...The first two Fletch books, Fletch in 1974 and Confess Fletch in 1976 both won Gregory McDonald Edgars for Best Mysteries....”

Interviewee(s): Mcdonald, Gregory, 1937-2008
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-04

1976 “...If you had told me in 1976, that 14 years later, I would have a Pulitzer Prize...”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-24

1976 “...But it was in 1976 that she sailed in the big one....”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Clare
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-23

1976 “...In 1976 Judith Jacklyn, Anne Beatts and Deanne Stillman collaborated on a collection of humor written by women....”

Interviewee(s): Beatts, Anne P. | Stillman, Deanne
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-17

1976 “...In 1976, Farrar, Strauss, and Jarreau claimed that Brodkey had delivered the novel titled Party of Animals, but Brodkey says that was PR hype....”

Interviewee(s): Brodkey, Harold
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-15

1976 “...The result was Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, followed nine years later by The Vampire Lestat....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-26

1976 “...I mean that's what I would have advised anybody in 1976 who'd come to me and said, "What about a book in which all the main characters are vampires?...”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Anne, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-19

1976 “...A friend of mine in Washington was in a car that was blown up by Chilean right-wing terrorists back in 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Reiss, Bob
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-30

1976 “...McInerney graduated from Williams in 1976....”

Interviewee(s): McInerney, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-03

1976 “...In 1976, the college, Augusta College in Augusta, started a writers conference called Sandhills Writers Conference....”

Interviewee(s): Shivers, Louise
Broadcast circa: 1983-04-22

1976 “...From June of '76 until February or March of '77, I was hospitalized three times with drinking....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-15

1976 “...Carver published his first book of short stories in 1976 but alcoholism disrupted his career and broke up his family....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-16

1976 “...It's had a library since 1976, staffed by volunteers, in a small room in an apartment building on Main Street....”

Interviewee(s): Heyes, Martha
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-14

1976 “...Finally in January the school board voted four to three to permit without restrictions the books that had been at the center of controversy since 1976....”

Interviewee(s): Vonnegut, Kurt
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-21

1976 “...Barry Lopez, who first went to the Arctic in 1976, wandered with scientists and Eskimos alike across reaches of the far north....”

Interviewee(s): Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-27

1976 “...For more than 30 weeks, James Clavell's 1976 novel Shogun, was on the bestseller list....”

Interviewee(s): Clavell, James
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-21

1977 “...Lowell died in 1977 of a heart attack in a taxi cab en route from Kennedy Airport to Hardwick's apartment on Manhattan's West side....”

Interviewee(s): Hamilton, Ian, 1938-2001
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-17

1977 “...The Engineer of Human Souls, first published in 1977 and now translated into English, has been hailed critically although in Canada....”

Interviewee(s): Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-23

1977 “...In 1977, exactly, I was approached by KGB....”

Interviewee(s): Aksenov, Vasiliĭ, 1932-2009
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-28

1977 “...May 9, 1977, author James Jones died of a heart attack at the age of 55 on Long Island....”

Interviewee(s): Jones, James, 1921-1977
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-09

1977 “...In the 1970's Nabokov living in Switzerland where he was to die in 1977, authorized Andrew Field to write a biography but was not pleased with the results....”

Interviewee(s): Boyd, Brian, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-11

1977 “...Then he went through a creative crisis in 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Grobel, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-03

1977 “...Dispatches, which was published in 1977, was hailed as one of the best books to come out of the Vietnam War....”

Interviewee(s): Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
Broadcast circa: 1990-08-22

1977 “...Former Wall Street Journal reporter, David McClintick, is the author of Indecent Exposure, the bestseller about the 1977 embezzlement scandal at Columbia Pictures....”

Interviewee(s): McClintick, David, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1983-08-30

1977 “...Sometime in '73, I started writing "A Rumor of War" in the version that eventually was published in '77....”

Interviewee(s): Caputo, Philip
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-23

1977 “...I actually quit drinking on June 2, 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-14

1977 “...From June of '76 until February or March of '77, I was hospitalized three times with the drinking....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-14

1977 “...My first life came to an end in 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-14

1977 “...Now, we are up to 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Kimball, Penn
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-02

1977 “...In '77, the rest of Treasure of Ireland Exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum and the Book of Kells was it's major attraction....”

Interviewee(s): Duggelin, Urs
Broadcast circa: 1990-03-05

1977 “...Tendril dates to 1977, when Murphy and five friends pooled their money to start a small magazine....”

Interviewee(s): Murphy, George E. (George Edward), 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-07

1977 “...I don't know where the idea came from, but it was late one night, early in 1977, and I thought of this girl, or this young woman, who is living with people who are different....”

Interviewee(s): Auel, Jean M.
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-13

1977 “...Since 1977, twice divorced Tess Gallagher has been the companion of short story writer Raymond Carver, and they are living together in Port Angeles, Washington, where she grew up....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-09

1977 “...McPherson was on his way to his job at the Washington Post one cold day in 1977....”

Interviewee(s): McPherson, William
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-11

1977 “...William McPherson won a Pulitzer Prize for his literary criticism in 1977, and now works on the editorial page of the Washington Post....”

Interviewee(s): McPherson, William
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-12

1977 “...I had started a book like this around 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1989-06-16

1977 “...Back in 1977, the publishers said they couldn't categorize Touch, since it wasn't a crime novel, or a Western, like Leonard's other works....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-17

1977 “...Because Elmore Leonard's characters take over, the year Elmore Leonard wrote Touch was the year he had his last drink, January 24, 1977 at nine in the morning....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-16

1977 “...Miriam Irwin, she is publisher of Mosaic Press in Cincinnati, turning out beautiful miniature books since 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Irwin, Miriam
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-21

1977 “...She started her Mosaic Press in 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Irwin, Miriam
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-22

1977 “...9:00 AM, January 24th, 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-27

1977 “...I actually quit drinking on June 2nd, 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-15

1977 “...From June of '76 until February or March of '77, I was hospitalized three times with drinking....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-15

1977 “...He dates his sobriety from June 2nd, 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-15

1977 “...He had been sober for six months when he met Tess Gallagher at a writers conference in 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-16

1977 “...The late writer Raymond Carver was not only coming out of alcoholism but was in financial bankruptcy when he me poet Tess Gallagher in 1977....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-17

1977 “...McFadden is a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and author of a 1977 satire about Marin County, California called The Serial....”

Interviewee(s): McFadden, Cyra
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-29

1977 “...Since 1977, Shannon Ravenel has been the annual editor of Houghton Mifflin's Anthology of Stories....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-16

1978 “...Les Whitten was building a reputation as a top investigative reporter, working with Jack Anderson, when he quit in 1978 in order to write novels full time....”

Interviewee(s): Whitten, Les, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-25

1978 “...77 through '78, he was drinking then....”

Interviewee(s): Grobel, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-03

1978 “...Barry Hannah is a one-of-a-kind fiction writer whose 1978 collection of stories, Airships, is considered by many to be a contemporary classic....”

Interviewee(s): Hannah, Barry
Broadcast circa: 1993-03-08

1978 “...Jamaica Kincaid, reading from her first published work of fiction, Girl, which appeared in the New Yorker in 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Kincaid, Jamaica
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-31

1978 “...The first book, I think, that sort of got noticed was The Making of the Popes which was published in 1979 about the papal elections in 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Greeley, Andrew M., 1928-2013
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-26

1978 “...William Wharton raised canaries when he was a kid growing up in Philadelphia which gave him some of the ammunition he used to write his first novel Birdy published in 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Wharton, William
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-06

1978 “...It was the idea of photographer Rick Smolan, who was working in Australia for Time and National Geographic back in 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Smolan, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-12

1978 “...Susan Isaacs is a Long Island housewife and mother, whose 1978 novel, Compromising Positions, is about a suburban woman who turns sleuth after a local dentist is murdered....”

Interviewee(s): Isaacs, Susan, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-17

1978 “...Radosh began work on The Rosenberg File in 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Radosh, Ronald
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-19

1978 “...Quite to our surprise the proportion of adults who read books is unchanged since 1978 when there was a prior study done....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-25

1978 “...We became William Golding's publisher about five or six years ago, and published a novel of his entitled 'Darkness Visible', and to be precise we published it in 1978, and that was the book that won the big award in England, the Booker Award....”

Interviewee(s): Straus, Roger
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-19

1978 “...That is recognized in the fact that he won the Pulitzer prize for his collection, The Stories of John Cheever, in 1978....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1982-06-19

1978 “...This House of Sky, published in 1978, was nominated for a national book award....”

Interviewee(s): Doig, Ivan
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-17

1978 “...But many of the stories in The Bus of Dreams are set in various Latin American countries where Morris has been a frequent traveler since 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Morris, Mary, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-22

1978 “...McDowell went to The New York Times from The Wall Street Journal in 1978, and says his book about the Marines helped him to land the publishing beat....”

Interviewee(s): McDowell, Edwin
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-10

1978 “...Mary Breasted was a general assignment reporter at the Times from 1973 to 1978 after a stint at the Village Voice and an education at Radcliffe....”

Interviewee(s): Breasted, Mary, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1982-05-16

1978 “...Breasted, who worked on the Times city desk from 1973 to '78, has written a cutting satire of her former newspaper called I Shouldn't Be Telling You This....”

Interviewee(s): Breasted, Mary, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1982-05-17

1978 “...Carl Bernstein began the book in 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-17

1978 “...Morrison who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1978 book Song of Solomon was born in 1931 in the working class town of Lorain, Ohio....”

Interviewee(s): Morrison, Toni
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-28

1979 “...It all started in 1979....”

Interviewee(s): Zagat, Tim
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-23

1979 “...His second volume, Front and Center, was published in 1979; and now Houseman says Final Dress marks the completion of his autobiography....”

Interviewee(s): Houseman, John, 1902-1988
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-12

1979 “...For instance in 1979 when he was writing "Music for Chameleons"...”

Interviewee(s): Clarke, Gerald, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-15

1979 “...There was a failed marriage, a series of odd jobs and finally her first published story in 1979....”

Interviewee(s): Gertler, T.
Broadcast circa: 1984-08-13

1979 “...It is to be administered by the Pan American Center, of which Malamud was president, from 1979 to 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Giroux, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-25

1979 “...The first book, I think, that sort of got noticed was The Making of the Popes which was published in 1979 about the papal elections in 1978....”

Interviewee(s): Greeley, Andrew M., 1928-2013
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-26

1979 “...In his book, Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez describes the stranding of 41 sperm whales on an Oregon beach in 1979....”

Interviewee(s): Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-29

1979 “...James Ennes is now retired from the Navy, but his account of the Israeli attack can be found in a book published in 1979 and still in print, Assault on the Liberty....”

Interviewee(s): Ennes, James M.
Broadcast circa: 1983-07-07

1979 “...He went to graduate school, worked at the Washington Post, and began writing fiction in earnest, winning the National Book Award in 1979....”

Interviewee(s): O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-06

1979 “...In 1979, O'Brien won the National Book Award for his novel, Going After Cacciato, which blended fantasy with the stark reality of war....”

Interviewee(s): O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-06

1979 “...The first was The Dogs of March in 1979, then...”

Interviewee(s): Hebert, Ernest
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-14

1979 “...The distinction between books and computers may be beginning to blur, thanks to firms like Infocom, a Boston software firm created in 1979 by a number of MIT graduates....”

Interviewee(s): Lebling, P. David
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-16

1979 “...Perelman was 75 when he died alone in a hotel room in New York in 1979....”

Interviewee(s): Herrmann, Dorothy
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-11

1979 “...In the beginning, McGinniss thought he would write an account of a murder trial, but it turned out to be a bigger story, which was found in his book, Fatal Vision, at 663-pages long and recounts the story of Jeffrey MacDonald through his 1979 murder conviction....”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1983-09-29

1979 “...Mary Morris' first book of stories was The Vanishing Animals, in 1979, then a novel, Crossroads, and now a short story collection, called, The Bus of Dreams....”

Interviewee(s): Morris, Mary, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-21

1979 “...Scott Spencer's third book, Endless Love, his best known, was published in 1979, when he was 34....”

Interviewee(s): Spencer, Scott
Broadcast circa: 1986-06-23

1979 “...In 1979, I was asked to make a speech to a large business audience in Stockholm....”

Interviewee(s): Naisbitt, John
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-19

1979 “...The third volume in his Bernie Rhodenbarr series, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, won the Nero Wolfe Award as the best mystery of 1979....”

Interviewee(s): Block, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-12

1979 “...Schneider says the society held its first meeting in 1979 in Asheville, North Carolina, Wolfe's birthplace....”

Interviewee(s): Schneider, Duane
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-29

1979 “...By the time the death of Newhouse in 1979, his holdings included 29 newspapers, Condé Nast Magazines, Random House, radio and TV stations, and a cable television network....”

Interviewee(s): Meeker, Richard H., 1949-
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-06

1979 “...Newhouse died in 1979 and Meeker says he left behind not one newspaper that can be considered even good....”

Interviewee(s): Meeker, Richard H., 1949-
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-07

1980s “...Janowitz started making friends in the art world in the early 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Janowitz, Tama
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-30

1980s “...Her book Slaves Of New York, now a Washington Square Press paperback, caught the imagination of the In people of the 80s....”

Interviewee(s): Janowitz, Tama
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-01

1980s “...They tend to take on that whole aura that we're told exists in the early '80s of conservatism, about jobs, and......”

Interviewee(s): Howard, Maureen, 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-11

1980s “...In Studs Terkel's newest book, The Great Divide, everyday Americans explain in their own words the divisions facing the nation in the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-21

1980s “...While the 1980s, in takeover mania, the magazine's fate was sealed, as Gigi Mahon tells us in The Last Days of The New Yorker, published by McGraw-Hill....”

Interviewee(s): Mahon, Gigi
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-20

1980s “...Apple is a place where the technology of the 80s and the social concerns of the 60s really came together....”

Interviewee(s): Rose, Frank
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-26

1980s “...A psychopathic killer of two teenage girls was on the loose in the quiet English midlands in the mid 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Wambaugh, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-27

1980s “...I started writing it at 18 then had to stop and began again in the 1960s and finally ended it in the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-15

1980s “...Democracy is very fragile in Latin America because of the great crisis, economic and social crisis we have lived through in the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-19

1980s “...There are at last half a dozen books that have been published in the 1980s that include Hofmann documents....”

Interviewee(s): Sillitoe, Linda, 1948-2010
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-31

1980s “...The young literati of the late 1980s, centered primarily in New York City, Bret Easton Ellis, and Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney, and believe it or not, 17 other novels....”

Interviewee(s): Simms, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-27

1980s “...All about kind of the hip go-go lifestyle in the late 1980s in New York, about drug use and abuse, about sexual gyrations, and staying out every night till five, and getting fired from your job, and hanging out with the cool people....”

Interviewee(s): Simms, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-27

1980s “...That's the in-fiction of the late 80s....”

Interviewee(s): Simms, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-28

1980s “...The beginning was in the late '80s, and it's going on and going on....”

Interviewee(s): Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-10

1980s “...In the late 1980s, German writer Günter Grass went to Calcutta for an extended stay in order to better understand and to write about the tragic poverty and squalor....”

Interviewee(s): Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-11

1980s “...That's Gail Parent, truly a writer of the '80s....”

Interviewee(s): Parent, Gail
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-25

1980s “...High school yearbook pictures easily point out the would-be movie queens, the girls who trim their hair like Veronica Lake in the 40s, like Farrah Fawcett in the 80s....”

Interviewee(s): Appel, Alfred
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-04

1980s “...David Leavitt's highly praised profile of a family of the 80s, "Equal Affections" was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson....”

Interviewee(s): Leavitt, David, 1961-
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-24

1980s “...More than 90 of Marc Riboud's photographs take from the 1950s through the 80s, throughout the world, are in his book Photographs at Home and Abroad....”

Interviewee(s): Riboud, Marc
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-05

1980s “...In the 1980s, Doubleday paid Gay Talese a generous advance for a book about his family, which would become Unto the Sons....”

Interviewee(s): Talese, Gay
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-13

1980s “...When I started the book, I conceived it as a book about the first half of the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-06

1980s “...Bret Easton Ellis says Less Than Zero is both a warning and an indictment, and he believes that his novel captured a lot of attention, because it is one of the first books to describe accurately the generation of the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Ellis, Bret Easton
Broadcast circa:

1980s “...She's a woman of the '80s....”

Interviewee(s): Morris, Mary, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-22

1980s “...Jay McInerney tells us about the drug hazed, sexual permissive young of the 1980s in his novel, Story of My Life, published by Atlantic Monthly Press....”

Interviewee(s): McInerney, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-04

1980s “...McInerney, best known for "Bright Lights, Big City" truly captures the voice of the affluent but wasted young women of the 80s....”

Interviewee(s): McInerney, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-10

1980s “...In the mid 1980s, Mona Simpson had a vague idea for a novel....”

Interviewee(s): Simpson, Mona
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-08

1980s “...With the support of Tess Gallagher, Carver went on to write some of the most intricate and stylish short stories of the 1980s until his premature death cut short his brilliance....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-15

1980s “...The late Raymond Carver was an unlikely person to develop into one of the most gifted short story writers and poets of the mid 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-16

1980s “...The Jesus of the last 2,000 years has become as much of a hypocritical piece of nonsense as, say, the Reagans in the 80s were....”

Interviewee(s): Monette, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1991-07-29

1980s “...Now Where Were We, deals with many of the issues of the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-18

1980s “...The 80s to me were a trashy decade, but there are some things I think worth saving from the Reagan administration....”

Interviewee(s): Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-18

1980s “...Free to Be a Family is in full color, crammed with stories, poems, songs, even a comic strip, all exploring the many different ways of being a family in the 1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-21

1980s “...It's not so much about Tower Records, as it is the Tower Records syndrome of that being sort of the new singles bar of the 80s....”

Interviewee(s): McKuen, Rod
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-29

1980s “...At Risk, deals with a major tragedy of the 80s, AIDS and its impact on a New England family....”

Interviewee(s): Hoffman, Alice
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-19

1980s “...First novelist H. F. Saint has brought the story up to date in a 1980s version called Memoirs of an Invisible Man....”

Interviewee(s): Saint, H. F. (Harry F.)
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-11

1980s “...Those women have been pretty well repudiated, even by their sister feminists, but-- They almost were able to achieve the passage of legislation in Indianapolis, Indiana and Minneapolis, Minnesota in the middle 1980s to get their views regarding pornography passed as legislation....”

Interviewee(s): Noble, William
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-19

1980 “...His book, The Basketball Diaries, was published in 1980, some years after his first volume of poetry, Living at the Movies....”

Interviewee(s): Carroll, Jim
Broadcast circa: 1986-06-02

1980 “...Barnes published his first novel, Metroland, in 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Barnes, Julian
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-01

1980 “...In 1980, Spiegelman and his wife launched their own magazine, Raw....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-21

1980 “...50,000 people turned out for the funeral of Jean-Paul Sartre in 1980, extraordinary when you consider that Sartre was only a writer and philosopher, not a rock singer or a movie star....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-07

1980 “...Brown admits that he was naive about the craft of writing when he began his first failed effort in 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Brown, Larry, 1951-2004
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-06

1980 “...Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has not yet been updated since 1980, and Justin Kaplan was faced with three major tasks....”

Interviewee(s): Kaplan, Justin
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-19

1980 “...Novelist Richard Condon moved to Dallas in 1980 after years of living abroad, and writing such novels as 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Winter Kills'....”

Interviewee(s): Condon, Richard
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-05

1980 “...Edna Buchanan blames a lot Miami's crime problems on the Mariel boatlift in 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Buchanan, Edna
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-15

1980 “...The idea of this novel was first sparked by an assignment I did back in 1980 for Playboy Magazine about the phenomenon of emotionally maimed or troubled Vietnam veterans....”

Interviewee(s): Caputo, Philip
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-22

1980 “...Viking indignantly turned down Malcolm in 1959, a book Viking republished under the title, Dream Palaces, in 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-12

1980 “...Yet in 1980, Viking republished Malcolm in an omnibus volume titled Dream Palaces....”

Interviewee(s): Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-01

1980 “...Green agrees the atmosphere on the college campus is a lot different in the 1980's....”

Interviewee(s): Green, Gerald
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-04

1980 “...McFarland sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1980, and after several false starts, began the novel that became The Music Room, published last year to rave reviews....”

Interviewee(s): McFarland, Dennis
Broadcast circa: 1991-08-05

1980 “...Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980 has not saved the poet Czesław Miłosz from ostracism in his native Poland....”

Interviewee(s): Miłosz, Czesław
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-07

1980 “...L. Ron Hubbard hasn't been seen in public since 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Forman, Len
Broadcast circa: 1985-02-21

1980 “...The Story is set in the 1980's....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Alice, 1926-1999
Broadcast circa: 1991-07-08

1980 “...Incidentally, Dmitri Nabokov is his own man, a singer and mountain climber whose life was almost cut short in 1980 when in Switzerland, someone sabotaged his car....”

Interviewee(s): Nabokov, Dmitri
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-26

1980 “...It went under in um, 1980, 81, just for total lack of money....”

Interviewee(s): Packard, William
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-28

1980 “...When I started the book, I conceived it as a book about the first half of the 1980's....”

Interviewee(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-08

1980 “...In fact, in 1980, Drabble stopped writing fiction for the next six years....”

Interviewee(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-06

1980 “...Jay McInerney tells us about the drug hazed, sexual permissive young of the 1980's in his novel, Story of My Life....”

Interviewee(s): McInerney, Jay
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-11

1980 “...The narrator of Anthony Burgess' 1980 novel, Earthly Powers, is a homosexual....”

Interviewee(s): Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-29

1980 “...Forsyth decided he wanted to go back to his roots, so in 1980 he sold his home outside Dublin and returned to his native England....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-26

1980 “...Whenever I could, I wrote on books, and then my novel was published in 1980, and then they were looking for someone to cover the book-publishing industry full-time....”

Interviewee(s): McDowell, Edwin
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-10

1980 “...Now Where Were We?, says that one of the developments of the 1980's was that men must look and smell nice....”

Interviewee(s): Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1989-04-20

1980 “...1980 was a busy time for Brad Leithauser, the year he graduated from Harvard Law School....”

Interviewee(s): Leithauser, Brad
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-04

1980 “...In 1980, he turned out a novel called Summer Fires, about skullduggery over the search for oil under the Bronx....”

Interviewee(s): Reiss, Bob
Broadcast circa: 1984-04-20

1980 “...At Risk, deals with a major tragedy of the 1980's, AIDS, and its impact on a New England family....”

Interviewee(s): Hoffman, Alice
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-17

1980 “...David Payne began work on his novel in 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Payne, David (William David)
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-17

1980 “...Cy died in 1980, Pat a couple of years later....”

Interviewee(s): McFadden, Cyra
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-28

1980 “...Armed with Nikons, notepads, and tape recorders, Galen Rowell has traveled to remote western China four times since 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Rowell, Galen A.
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-02

1980 “...All of Allen Ginsberg's poetry has been collected into an 800 page volume, Collected Poems 1947 To 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-18

1980 “...Just about everything Allen Ginsberg has written is included in his more than 800-page Collected Poems: 1947 to 1980....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-21

1980 “...On the heels of his collected poems 1947 to 1980, Ginsberg plans five more volumes....”

Interviewee(s): Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-22

1981 “...That was in 1981 and it just didn't sell too many copies....”

Interviewee(s): Janowitz, Tama
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-01

1981 “...The New York Times elected Patricia Hampl's memoir, A Romantic Education, as a notable book of 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Hampl, Patricia, 1946-
Broadcast circa: 1983-11-04

1981 “...Writer Tracy Kidder had an inkling he might win the Pulitzer Prize in 1981, but it still came as a shock when the Associated Press phoned Kidder at his house in Amherst, Massachusetts....”

Interviewee(s): Kidder, Tracy
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-18

1981 “...Until World's Fair at least, E.L. Doctorow was best known for his novel Ragtime, which was produced as a film in 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-02

1981 “...It is to be administered by the Pan American Center, of which Malamud was president, from 1979 to 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Giroux, Robert
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-25

1981 “...She graduated in 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Wolitzer, Meg
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-06

1981 “...That first book was never published, although some of it made it's way into Potok's 1981 novel, "The Book of Lights....”

Interviewee(s): Potok, Chaim
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-01

1981 “...Hoban's 1981 novel Riddley Walker captured a lot of attention because of its inventive use of language....”

Interviewee(s): Hoban, Russell
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-09

1981 “...Jan Harold Brunvand began picking up that tale and its variations in 1981, and to this date, no one has been able to verify that it actually happened....”

Interviewee(s): Brunvand, Jan Harold
Broadcast circa: 1994-08-09

1981 “...In 1981, at the Pine Ridge Indian reservation, Michael Dorris encountered a group of children who showed the same characteristics as Adam, and Dorris asked a counselor about them....”

Interviewee(s): Dorris, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-11

1981 “...During a 1981 interview, Gardner, author of "Grendel" and "Nickel Mountain," said he became better as a writer as he honed his skills....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1933-1982 | Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-05

1981 “...In 1981 Joseph Heller was flat on his back every muscle paralyzed, nourished through a tube in his nose...”

Interviewee(s): Heller, Joseph | Vogel, Speed, 1918-2008
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-24

1981 “...That's Ted Mooney, who attracted a lot of attention in 1981 with his first novel, Easy Travel to Other Planets, in which a young woman, a marine biologist, has passionate sex with a male dolphin....”

Interviewee(s): Mooney, Ted
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-05

1981 “...Smolan had the idea for the first Day in the Life book about Australia in 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Smolan, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-14

1981 “...Martin Cruz Smith is best known for his 1981 best seller, Gorky Park, the story of a Russian homicide detective who investigates a triple murder in Moscow....”

Interviewee(s): Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Broadcast circa:

1981 “...His first book of poems, Whispering to Fool the Wind, won the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award in 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Ríos, Alberto Alvaro
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-02

1981 “...Mary Cantwell, author of a memoir called American Girl, has been on the New York Times Editorial Board since 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Cantwell, Mary
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-26

1981 “...Sanchez landed in Key West for the first time in 1981 and watched three major developments: the launch of the first space shuttle, the deluge of humanity from Haiti ......”

Interviewee(s): Sanchez, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-29

1981 “...The third thing that I really encountered there in 1981 was the shift from marijuana to cocaine....”

Interviewee(s): Sanchez, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-29

1981 “...Not long after the publication of his acclaimed 1981 novel, The White Hotel, English writer D. M. Thomas was invited to teach for a semester at American University in Washington....”

Interviewee(s): Thomas, D. M.
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-19

1981 “...Writer Jonathan Raban is an engaging Englishman who captured a lot of attention with his 1981 book, Old Glory....”

Interviewee(s): Raban, Jonathan
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-05

1981 “...There is a slick little magazine that's been around only since December of 1981 and it's designed for a neighborhood that New Yorker's once thought was doomed....”

Interviewee(s): Shaughnessy, Mary Frances
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-06

1981 “...That was up a big $1.40, or almost 10% over 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Meyer, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-02

1981 “...That's Daniel Roth, executive producer of Newman Communications, which entered the books on tape field in 1981 as a distributor for such audio producers as listen for pleasure....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-13

1981 “...In a 1981 interview, Dickey spoke of hunting the woods with a bow and arrow, and with a blowgun....”

Interviewee(s): Dickey, James
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-18

1981 “...In a 1981 interview Vonnegut said, "Any enemy of his book is entitled to be an enemy "but he has no right to take official action....”

Interviewee(s): Vonnegut, Kurt
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-21

1981 “...Los Gusanos is set in 1981, but spans several generations as it focuses on the lives of a single family in Cuba and Florida....”

Interviewee(s): Sayles, John, 1950-
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-16

1981 “...I was there literally interviewing people when they were coming in at Key West and in Miami during the Freedom Flotilla, the Mariel boatlift in 1981....”

Interviewee(s): Sayles, John, 1950-
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-08

1981 “...In 1981, Karnow was allowed back in Vietnam where he spent two months researching the book and the TV series....”

Interviewee(s): Karnow, Stanley
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-21

1981 “...Robert Stone's 1981 novel, A Flag for Sunrise, is as much about religion as it is about politics in a revolutionary-torn Central American country....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1986-05-08

1981 “...Brown's love affair with tennis star Martina Navratilova made headlines in 1981, but the writer says she's not afraid to tell the truth about herself....”

Interviewee(s): Brown, Rita Mae
Broadcast circa: 1989-01-12

1982 “...We started this book in 1982 and it really became a way of life....”

Interviewee(s): Gordon, Lois G.
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-01

1982 “...V.I. Warshawski is just as tough as she was in 1982, when she first appeared, but she's proved herself, and now meets everyone, the good guys and the bad, on their terms....”

Interviewee(s): Paretsky, Sara
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-05

1982 “...Ayn Rand died in March of 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Peikoff, Leonard
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-26

1982 “...In 1982, we ate home five times. ...”

Interviewee(s): Sheraton, Mimi
Broadcast circa: 1983-03-11

1982 “...Elkin's George Mills won the 1982 National Book Critic's Circle Award, and his most recent novel, The MacGuffin, was a finalist for the National Book Award....”

Interviewee(s): Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995
Broadcast circa: 1992-02-12

1982 “...In 1982, celebrity interviewer, Lawrence Grobel set out to talk to writer, Truman Capote, for cable TV....”

Interviewee(s): Grobel, Lawrence
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-02

1982 “...He published a collection of stories in 1982 and is now out with a book called Lake Wobegon Days based on the monologues he delivers each Saturday night on radio's A Prairie Home Companion....”

Interviewee(s): Keillor, Garrison
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-24

1982 “...Published in Hebrew in 1982, A Perfect Peace has been translated into English in an edition published by Harcourt Brace Javonavich....”

Interviewee(s): Oz, Amos
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-11

1982 “...Lessing is no longer persona non grata and has returned to Zimbabwe no fewer than five times since 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-07

1982 “...After being banished from her adopted homeland Southern Rhodesia, Doris Lessing finally returned in 1982 to find a new nation called Zimbabwe, now governed by the black majority....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-08

1982 “...Nathaniel Branden also says that Ayn Rand who died in 1982 often expressed her ideas in a way that produced a violent reaction....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Nathaniel
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-16

1982 “...John Cheever died in his home in Ossining, New York in 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-11

1982 “...Adams died in 1982 and the Stratemeyers Syndicate was broken up....”

Interviewee(s): Axelrad, Nancy S.
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-23

1982 “...After John Cheever died in 1982, a small publishing house, Academy Chicago, proposed publishing a collection of lesser known Cheever short stories, written from the '20s through the '60s....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-26

1982 “...The Morgan's copy was acquired through the Robert Wood Johnson Junior charitable trust, which paid 313,000 dollars for it at auction in 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000
Broadcast circa: 1983-12-14

1982 “...In 1982, he published The Impending Gleam....”

Interviewee(s): Baxter, Glen
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-27

1982 “...That all happened in December of 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Sheppard, Olga
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-23

1982 “...But Stanley Elkin put off the idea because he was well into writing George Mills, a novel that later earned him the 1982 National Book Critic Circle Award....”

Interviewee(s): Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-28

1982 “...Elkin's novel, George Mills, won the National Book Critic Circle award for a fiction in 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-29

1982 “...In 1982, I took this thirty-two foot boat and sailed it alone around the British Isles, which is a voyage of about 3,000 miles....”

Interviewee(s): Raban, Jonathan
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-06

1982 “...The average price of a hard cover book sold in 1982 was $15.63....”

Interviewee(s): Meyer, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1983-05-02

1982 “...At last the National Book Critics Circle reached a decision on 1982's best books....”

Interviewee(s): Locke, Richard, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-14

1982 “...Despite her notoriety and the outrage from both right and left over her philosophy, novelist Ayn Rand remained an enigmatic figure until her death in 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-04

1982 “...Barbara Branden says Ayn Rand, who died in 1982, wanted to be viewed as a goddess....”

Interviewee(s): Branden, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-08

1982 “...In 1982, Edmund White published an acclaimed autobiographical novel called, A Boy's Own Story....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-11

1982 “...Megatrends by John Naisbitt stayed on the bestseller list for more than a year after it entered the bookstores in October, 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Naisbitt, John
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-19

1982 “...The sensationally funny columnist is out with his first book since he won the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding commentary in 1982....”

Interviewee(s): Buchwald, Art
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-28

1982 “...In 1982, a well-to-do Houston, Texas couple named James and Virginia Campbell were brutally murdered in their beds, here's Irving....”

Interviewee(s): Irving, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-31

1982 “...Lessing says she went back for a visit in 1982 and found Rhodesia was still boring, especially the conversation....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-26

1983 “...So in 1983, the Zagat's decided to sell the guide in booklet form....”

Interviewee(s): Zagat, Tim
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-25

1983 “...That was John Houseman in a 1983 interview....”

Interviewee(s): Houseman, John, 1902-1988
Broadcast circa:

1983 “...In St. Louis where Stanley Elkin, winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award for his 1983 novel, George Mills, teaches creative writing....”

Interviewee(s): Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-16

1983 “...Bosse's 1983 novel, The Warlord, describes the China of the 1920's....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-28

1983 “...Malcolm Bosse's The Warlord totaled more than 700 pages when it was published in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-29

1983 “...In 1983, last year, there were 1,800,000 Americans went through Paris....”

Interviewee(s): Morton, Brian N.
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-17

1983 “...I came back in the summer of '83 I believe, for four months....”

Interviewee(s): Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-04

1983 “...In House, Tracy Kidder writes of the conflicts involved in building a single family home in Massachusetts in 1983, and he makes what might seem to be a mundane experience intriguing reading, published by Houghton Mifflin....”

Interviewee(s): Kidder, Tracy
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-18

1983 “...Born in India and educated in England, Andrew Harvey came into prominence in 1983 with his book, A Journey in Ladakh....”

Interviewee(s): Harvey, Andrew, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-16

1983 “...John Sculley, now Chairman and President of Apple Computer, recalls the day in 1983 when Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, invited Sculley to visit Silicon Valley....”

Interviewee(s): Sculley, John
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-08

1983 “...Joan Didion's nonfiction book did come out in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Didion, Joan
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-26

1983 “...After more than 20 years in the feminist scene, Gloria Steinem's first book, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions: A Collection of a Writing, was published in 1983 and is now in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Steinem, Gloria
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-10

1983 “...The Book of Daniel, released as a film in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-03

1983 “...So he left Dial in 1968 to finish "The Book of Daniel," based on the Rosenberg atomic spy case, filmed in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-04

1983 “...So in 1983, he left Time Life to write a novel called The August People....”

Interviewee(s): Graves, Ralph, 1924-2013
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-24

1983 “...It hit the best seller list in 1983 and stayed there....”

Interviewee(s): Heat Moon, William Least
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-01

1983 “...His novel "Dear Mister Capote" about an apparent mass murderer who wants Truman Capote to tell his story, created quite a stir in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Lish, Gordon
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-15

1983 “...I spoke to Faulk in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-22

1983 “...His novel, Dear Mr. Capote, earned rave reviews in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Lish, Gordon
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-28

1983 “...Some of the dust has settled in Great Britain since Paul Theroux's book The Kingdom by the Sea was published in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-07

1983 “...Christopher Byron knew there was something wrong, the day he reported for his first day on the job in 1983, as an editor at Time Incorporated's soon to be published magazine, 'TV-Cable week'....”

Interviewee(s): Byron, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1987-05-08

1983 “...Williams died in 1983, after choking on a plastic bottle cap....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-03

1983 “...The lives of Dotson Rader and Tennessee Williams continued to cross until the playwright's death in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Rader, Dotson
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-04

1983 “...In 1983, Louis L'Amour won the Congressional Gold Medal, the first novelist ever to win the award....”

Interviewee(s): L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Broadcast circa: 1984-07-18

1983 “...In 1983, Murray's former publisher Don Mead objected to some of the author's language and Murray wound up at a more receptive publishing house, Viking....”

Interviewee(s): Murray, William, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-21

1983 “...The writer Paul Theroux notes that before 1983, the Chinese people were not permitted to travel in their own country....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa:

1983 “...Roger Straus, president of the publishing house of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, talking about the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, which went to William Golding....”

Interviewee(s): Straus, Roger
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-19

1983 “...He was 47 when he died of cancer in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Scanlon, John
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-20

1983 “...Joe McGinniss, who spoke to me in 1983, says the book was actually MacDonald's idea....”

Interviewee(s): McGinniss, Joe
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-19

1983 “...His novel Waterland was nominated for Britain's Prestigious Booker prize and published in the U.S. in 1983 by Poseidon Press....”

Interviewee(s): Swift, Graham, 1949-
Broadcast circa: 1985-05-31

1983 “...For example, in her recent collection of short stories, The Bus of Dreams, and Morris' 1983 novel, Crossroads, the heroine is a young woman who is faced with reordering her life after the collapse of a relationship....”

Interviewee(s): Morris, Mary, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1985-08-22

1983 “...Already critics are looking for the best books of 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Locke, Richard, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-14

1983 “...But things changed in 1983....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-17

1983 “...It was in 1983 that Brad Leithauser got the staggering news that he had become the winner of a $160,000 MacArthur Award....”

Interviewee(s): Leithauser, Brad
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-04

1983 “...Simon and Garfunkel had nearly finished a worldwide tour in 1983, and Art was motorcycling through the Alps wondering what to do next....”

Interviewee(s): Garfunkel, Art
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-23

1983 “...Mark Helprin's 1983 novel, Winter's Tale, both enchanted and baffled many readers....”

Interviewee(s): Helprin, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1991-08-30

1983 “...In the year that followed the publication of Mark Helprin's controversial 1983 novel, Winter's Tale, Helprin and his wife bought an apartment in Brooklyn....”

Interviewee(s): Helprin, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-23

1983 “...He received good reviews for such work as The Ink Truck, Legs, and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, but it wasn't until 1983 that his novel Ironweed swept into print with glowing notices and won Kennedy the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-24

1983 “...The New York Times named Ironweed one of 1983's best, and it won the National Book Critics Circle Award....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-25

1984 “...That's Eden Ross Lipson, who should know, she's been the children's book editor of The New York Times since 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Lipson, Eden Ross
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-07

1984 “...Truman Capote died in 1984 which gave Gerald Clarke the unhappy ending to his vivid biography of an American original....”

Interviewee(s): Clarke, Gerald, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-15

1984 “...In 1984, Norman Mailer returned to The United States from his first visit to the Soviet Union....”

Interviewee(s): Mailer, Norman
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-06

1984 “...He's the author of the critically praised 1984 novel, Flaubert's Parrot....”

Interviewee(s): Barnes, Julian
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-30

1984 “...The Julian Barnes early literary novels were highly praised but sold poorly until the surprise success of Flaubert's Parrot in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Barnes, Julian
Broadcast circa: 1992-10-16

1984 “...Faulk told of his blacklisting and his suit against the people who falsely accused him of having communist ties in his 1984 book called "Fear on Trial."...”

Interviewee(s): Faulk, John Henry
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-21

1984 “...Alice Adams has been a writer for many years, but it wasn't until 1984 that she scored a hit with her novel, Superior Women....”

Interviewee(s): Adams, Alice, 1926-1999
Broadcast circa: 1985-10-02

1984 “...To top it off, Kennedy spent a good part of 1984 in Europe, promoting his books....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-05

1984 “...Two major events happened to Francesca Stanfill in 1984, the birth of her daughter, and the birth of her first novel, Shadows and Light....”

Interviewee(s): Stanfill, Francesca
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-13

1984 “...I've been obsessed by it until the end of 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Stoumen, Louis Clyde
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-10

1984 “...Garret Weyr looks great, robust, terrific red hair, the picture of health, yet in 1984, while a junior at the University of North Carolina, Weyr suffered a paralyzing stroke that forced her into months of physical therapy....”

Interviewee(s): Freymann-Weyr, Garret, 1965-
Broadcast circa: 1988-05-03

1984 “...It's a sensational idea, an oversized book of photographs showing the people, places, and things in the State of Israel on a single day, May 10th, 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Elon, Amos
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-20

1984 “...It follows a similar guide, published in 1984, called Americans in Paris....”

Interviewee(s): Morton, Brian N.
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-17

1984 “...Books are taken seriously enough so that my last book Civil Wars, that came out in '84, I shared a book party with the writer Max Apple....”

Interviewee(s): Brown, Rosellen
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-03

1984 “...The novel War Day, published in 1984, was a harrowing picture of life in the United States after a nuclear holocaust....”

Interviewee(s): Strieber, Whitley
Broadcast circa: 1985-11-28

1984 “...Lillian Hillman was 79 when she died in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Feibleman, Peter S., 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-28

1984 “...That's the writer, Peter Feibleman, some 25 years, Hellman's junior, yet her friend until her death in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Feibleman, Peter S., 1930-
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-29

1984 “...Murphy is also the man behind an anthology of some of the best short stories to appear in 1984 called The Editor's Choice, a Bantam Winstone paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Murphy, George E. (George Edward), 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-07

1984 “...Editor's Choice is a collection of 18 works of short fiction, published in 1984 and selected by the editors of the magazines in which the stories appeared....”

Interviewee(s): Murphy, George E. (George Edward), 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1985-03-08

1984 “...Louis L'Amour, who was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, talked with me about his life in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-11

1984 “...In 1984, L'Amour told me about his collection of rare books and especially designed study....”

Interviewee(s): L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-12

1984 “...The Southern writer, Jill McCorkle, made an unusual publishing debut in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): McCorkle, Jill, 1958-
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-29

1984 “...In 1984 I discovered that I had a very large, malignant tumor in my spinal cord that did not produce recognizable symptoms....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-13

1984 “...One of our most recent games is a very realistic look at a possible future in the sort of the tradition of 1984, Brave New World, a game called A Mind Forever Voyaging....”

Interviewee(s): Lebling, P. David
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-16

1984 “...The book she wrote was published in 1984, Dreams of Sleep, followed by Rich in Love, and her most recent, The Fireman's Fair....”

Interviewee(s): Humphreys, Josephine
Broadcast circa: 1992-05-08

1984 “...I lost the use of my legs in the summer of 1984 and have lived entirely in a wheelchair since then, have no use of my legs whatever....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1991-07-11

1984 “...Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has received widespread praise for her futuristic novel The Handmaid's Tale, which deserves comparisons with Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World....”

Interviewee(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-11

1984 “...Irwin Shaw died of prostate cancer at the age of 71 in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Schnayerson, Michael
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-11

1984 “...In 1984, Charles Scribner Jr., head of the venerable publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, proposed a merger with Macmillan....”

Interviewee(s): Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-30

1984 “...A book often compared to Orwell's 1984, Ray Bradbury's beautiful new novel is Green Shadows, White Whale, a nostalgic look at Ireland and movie director John Huston, published by Knopf....”

Interviewee(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-22

1984 “...Ishmael Reed says that George Orwell's '1984' was a major influence on him....”

Interviewee(s): Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-15

1984 “...That's one of the key books of this century; '1984'....”

Interviewee(s): Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-15

1984 “...My criticism of the book after looking at it again, was that Orwell, from his privileged position, didn't see that 1984 had already happened for some people....”

Interviewee(s): Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-15

1984 “...Sandra Cisneros' first novel, The House on Mango Street, was published by a small press in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Cisneros, Sandra
Broadcast circa: 1991-10-07

1984 “...Says Tevis, science fiction, including Orwell's 1984, is less a look at the future than one might think....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-19

1984 “...1984, I think, is really about what 1948 felt like to George Orwell, when looked at in the worst possible way....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-19

1984 “...The first in the series, published in 1984, is English Creek....”

Interviewee(s): Doig, Ivan
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-17

1984 “...The publisher, William Morrow and Company, will pay one individual, and there will be a winner, $10,000 at the next American Booksellers Convention in May of 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Adler, Bill, 1929-2014
Broadcast circa:

1984 “...Robert Bernstein, head of Random House, at a memorial service in New York not long after Truman Capote's death on August 25th, 1984....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-16

1984 “...Bobby Short helping to pay tribute to the late Truman Capote in New York on September 25th, 1984. ...”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-16

1984 “...1984 has arrived and the scholars are wondering just how accurate George Orwell was when he predicated the nightmare of big brother....”

Interviewee(s): Calder, Nigel, 1931-2014
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-31

1984 “...Some writers, such as, Walter Tevis contend that Orwell wasn't really writing about the future in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Calder, Nigel, 1931-2014
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-31

1984 “...Calder doesn't think Orwell was that far off about 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Calder, Nigel, 1931-2014
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-31

1984 “...Nigel Calder, the author of a book called, "1984 and "Beyond," published by Viking, in which he assesses the accuracy of the predictions of a group of experts made 20 years ago about the Orwellian year....”

Interviewee(s): Calder, Nigel, 1931-2014
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-31

1984 “...Incidentally, Nigel Calder carries around with him a dogeared copy of Orwell's, "1984" that he bought 28 years ago....”

Interviewee(s): Calder, Nigel, 1931-2014
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-31

1984 “...1984's paperback edition, with a new introduction and updated figures, also became a bestseller....”

Interviewee(s): Naisbitt, John
Broadcast circa: 1984-03-19

1984 “...Novelist Alison Lurie was in London when she got a phone call from the States telling her she had won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for her Novel Foreign Affairs....”

Interviewee(s): Lurie, Alison
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-08

1984 “...The 1984 edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac is out, with a record number of pages: 224 and a circulation of four million....”

Interviewee(s): Hale, Judson D.
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-17

1984 “...Fueled by the success of his first novel, A World Made of Fire, in 1984, Childress decided to quit the newspaper to concentrate full-time on a new novel, so he saved his money and moved to the deepest woods of Alabama....”

Interviewee(s): Childress, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-05

1984 “...Peter Straub's second novel, Under Venus, could not find a publisher until 1984, when it was brought out by Putnam's, along with two other early Straub novels, in a collection called Wild Animals....”

Interviewee(s): Straub, Peter, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-03

1984 “...And then I became blocked, or so I thought, and I didn't return to the book until 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1989-05-17

1984 “...In 1984, John Edgar Wideman was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award for his memoir, "Brothers and Keepers," in which he explored the gulf between himself and Robert....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-10

1984 “...In his 1984 memoir America Inside Out, Schoenbrun wrote of how his boss and mentor Edward R. Murrow once threw him a curve during a broadcast in Paris....”

Interviewee(s): Schoenbrun, David
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-06

1984 “..." That's the late former CBS news correspondent David Schoenbrun, interviewed in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Schoenbrun, David
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-06

1984 “...In 1984, he wrote of his long and distinguished career in a memoir, America Inside and Out....”

Interviewee(s): Schoenbrun, David
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-07

1984 “..." The pieces are personal, they are, I intended the book to be personal and to be a selective sort of autobiography of the 20 years from '64 to '84....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1985-09-09

1984 “...Susan Cheever's memoir of her late father, the writer John Cheever, created quite a stir when it was first published in 1984....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-12

1984 “...But in 1984, just after the publication of his critically acclaimed short story collection, Cathedral, Carver was under heavy pressure by both publishers and readers to do something he had not done before: write a novel....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-14

1984 “...In 1984, he went to his home in Port Angeles, Washington, fully intending to write a novel....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-05

1984 “...In 1984 Doris Lessing, the author of some 35 books, including the famed Golden Notebook, wrote two novels under the name of Jane Summers, to dramatize the problem unknown writers have in getting published and reviewed....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-28

1985 “...A recent novel written by banking consultant Franklin Allen Leib is dedicated to Robert Dean Stethem, a US Navy diver who was murdered by Arab terrorists who hijacked a TWA jetliner in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Leib, Franklin Allen, 1944-
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-06

1985 “...And he tells us what happened in 1985 as Hannibal celebrated the sesquicentennial of the birth of Mark Twain....”

Interviewee(s): Powers, Ron
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-29

1985 “...It's also a devastating chronicle of a folly, Hannibal's attempt to cash in on a 1985 sesquicentennial, the birth of it's most famous native son, Mark Twain....”

Interviewee(s): Powers, Ron
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-30

1985 “...Until 1985, it was controlled by the Fleischmann family....”

Interviewee(s): Mahon, Gigi
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-20

1985 “...It starts in 1985 and works its way back to 1918 with much of it set in the 1930's....”

Interviewee(s): Flagg, Fannie
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-03

1985 “...The stories start in 1985 and work their way back to 1918....”

Interviewee(s): Flagg, Fannie
Broadcast circa: 1988-12-23

1985 “...The other by Annie Cohen-Solal, was published in France in 1985, and now translated to English in an edition published by Pantheon....”

Interviewee(s): Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1987-09-07

1985 “...Jane Flatt says the 1985 edition of The World Almanac contains for example, rock and roll notables and best-selling video cassettes....”

Interviewee(s): Flatt, Jane D.
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-18

1985 “...1,700,000 copies of the 920-page World Almanac were distributed for 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Flatt, Jane D.
Broadcast circa: 1985-01-18

1985 “...Edmund White revealed that he had the AIDS virus in 1985, one of the first to talk about it openly....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1991-12-17

1985 “...That was '85, now here it is all these years later, and I'm in perfect health....”

Interviewee(s): White, Edmund, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1992-10-29

1985 “...Writer John Edgar Wideman was watching TV one May night in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-20

1985 “...Selected Poems, 1935 to 1985, I think poetry should be fun....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-09

1985 “...Busy as he is, William Kennedy vows to deliver the fourth in his Albany cycle of novels, Quinn's Book, in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-
Broadcast circa: 1984-12-05

1985 “...In October 1985, a bomb went off in a Salt Lake City office building, killing a Mormon businessman named Steven Christensen....”

Interviewee(s): Sillitoe, Linda, 1948-2010
Broadcast circa: 1988-08-29

1985 “...First published in 1985, it's now out in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-09

1985 “...In 1985, Little Brown published his novel A Maggot....”

Interviewee(s): Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-10

1985 “...He began writing full-time in 1985 after he published his first book, "Our House in the Last World", the story of a Cuban immigrant family in a working class neighborhood. "...”

Interviewee(s): Hijuelos, Oscar
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-26

1985 “...Two years ago Gail Godwin was co-editor of The Best Short Stories of 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Godwin, Gail
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-11

1985 “...Dorothy Salisbury Davis has been turning out stories of mystery and suspense since 1949, and in 1985, was honored with the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America....”

Interviewee(s): Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-14

1985 “...The Available Press launched its first title in the spring of 1985 with the idea of releasing quality paperbacks throughout the year, printing them at times when the presses become available, instead of reflecting the traditional spring and fall publishers' catalogs....”

Interviewee(s): Schwartz, Jane
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-23

1985 “...And Caspar Weinberger, the secretary of defense, canceled the project, you know, front page news in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Parker, T. Jefferson
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-29

1985 “...A collections of essays by William Gass, Habitations of the Word, won the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism....”

Interviewee(s): Gass, William H., 1924-
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-02

1985 “...Tan started writing it in 1985, after her mother was hospitalized with an apparent heart attack....”

Interviewee(s): Tan, Amy
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-21

1985 “...Bob Shacochis is the young short story writer who won the American Book Award in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Shacochis, Bob
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-02

1985 “...Shacochis, who won the American Book Award in 1985, recently finished a semester as a visiting writer at Wichita State University in Kansas....”

Interviewee(s): Shacochis, Bob
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-03

1985 “...I interviewed Freeman in 1985, and she told me she had no concept of aging....”

Interviewee(s): Freeman, Cynthia
Broadcast circa: 1988-11-09

1985 “...Orson Welles died in October 1985, shortly after the first publication of Barbara Leaming's biography of him....”

Interviewee(s): Leaming, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-11

1985 “...But the University of Maine came to the rescue and picked up the publishing costs, and The New York Quarterly renewed publication in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Packard, William
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-28

1985 “...Sharon Sheehe Stark's 1985 collection of short stories, The Dealers' Yard, was well-received, and she began work on a novel....”

Interviewee(s): Stark, Sharon Sheehe
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-10

1985 “...Elmore Leonard's novel Glitz was one of 1985's best sellers and all of his earlier novels have been reissued as paperbacks....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-26

1985 “...Elmore Leonard had a bestseller on his hands in 1985, Glitz....”

Interviewee(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Broadcast circa: 1985-12-27

1985 “...When the 1985 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, Alison Lurie, author of Foreign Affairs won the prestigious award for fiction....”

Interviewee(s): Lurie, Alison
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-24

1985 “...There must have been a lot of celebrating at Cornell University, when it was announced that Alison Lurie won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Lurie was cited for her novel, Foreign Affairs....”

Interviewee(s): Lurie, Alison
Broadcast circa: 1985-04-25

1985 “...But Random House unveiled its first dozen titles in 1985 with another two dozen expected over the coming months....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-17

1985 “...That was in 1985, and thanks to an antiviral drug, Paul Monette survives to chronicle the AIDS generation....”

Interviewee(s): Monette, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-16

1985 “...Paul Monette was tested positive for AIDS in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Monette, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-18

1985 “...In 1985, Huckleberry Finn and The Wizard of Oz....”

Interviewee(s): Moser, Barry
Broadcast circa: 1985-06-26

1985 “...In 1985 Wiesel was chairman of the US Holocaust memorial Council and in a tension-filled confrontation at the White House he urged President Reagan not to visit Bitburg, the German military cemetery where Nazi war dead are buried....”

Interviewee(s): Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-09

1985 “...His first novel, "Pull of the Earth", was published in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Alcorn, Alfred
Broadcast circa: 1988-06-28

1985 “...The 1985 book by Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, was a study of people with neurological disorders and became a surprise best seller....”

Interviewee(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-03

1985 “...Originally published by Ticknor & Fields in 1985, the book is now available as a Warner Paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Chute, Carolyn
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-18

1985 “...In 1985 when Ticknor and Fields published the novel, the tale of a rowdy white trash family in rural Maine, the critics immediately raised images of Faulkner and Caldwell....”

Interviewee(s): Chute, Carolyn
Broadcast circa: 1986-08-19

1985 “...Lots of things have happened to writer John Nichols since his novel American Blood was published in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1992-08-17

1985 “...To the forces that Allen was combating, are the forces that killed people in May 1985 when the MOVE house was burned....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-09

1985 “...Carolyn Chute's 1985 novel "The Beans of Egypt Maine: A Portrait of the Rural Poor," prompted critics to compare the author to Erskine Caldwell....”

Interviewee(s): Chute, Carolyn
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-26

1985 “...But Carolyn Chute says Michael is their automobile and gun expert and helped her as she wrote her 1985 novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, and her newest, Letourneau's Used Auto Parts....”

Interviewee(s): Chute, Carolyn
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-27

1985 “...Hugh Nissenson also created the illustrations for The Tree of Life, originally published in 1985 by Harper and Rowe and now a paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-13

1985 “...Until his retirement in 1985, Ray Walters was an editor with The New York Times Sunday Book Review and wrote a weekly column called Paperback Talk....”

Interviewee(s): Walters, Ray, 1912-
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-25

1985 “...The title comes from the column Walters wrote for the New York Times Sunday book review until his retirement in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Walters, Ray, 1912-
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-26

1985 “...65 days, no novel, but enough poetry for a book, which became Where Water Comes Together With Other Water, published in 1985....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-05

1985 “...But Stone told me this in a 1985 interview....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa:

1985 “...That was Stone in a 1985 interview....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Broadcast circa:

1985 “...Doris Lessing's books have sold by the millions around the world, but Lessing says she received more mail for her 1985 novel, The Good Terrorist, than any of her books....”

Interviewee(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-27

1986 “...She struck gold in 1986 with a collection of short stories, mostly about the art world, called Slaves of New York....”

Interviewee(s): Janowitz, Tama
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-31

1986 “...Barbara Parker told the 1986 International PEN Congress there were censorship efforts in 46 of the 50 states, 40% of them successful....”

Interviewee(s): Talese, Gay | Parker, Barbara
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-03

1986 “...November 1986, a black-tie dinner in New York, Gail Godwin, one of the three judges of the American Book Awards, revealed that the winner of the prize for fiction was chosen the week before on a rainy Tuesday in Baltimore....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-02

1986 “...On behalf of the three of us, and the American Book Awards, I congratulate our 1986 winner E.L. Doctorow, author of World's Fair. ...”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-02

1986 “...Doctorow has made a few headlines, such as when he led the opposition to an appearance by Secretary of State George Shultz at a major writers conference in 1986, but Doctorow has found that he can walk down a busy street without attracting attention....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-02

1986 “...E.L. Doctorow, clearly a man of the left, was a forceful presence at the 1986 International PEN Congress where he told reporters there is no way the writer can separate himself from politics....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-06

1986 “...Doctorow's support of Human Rights issues was clear, as he accepted the American Book Award for Fiction in November 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-06

1986 “...In 1986, Oxford, Mississippi fire captain Larry Brown, a would-be writer took six months off from his literary pursuits to build a new house....”

Interviewee(s): Brown, Larry, 1951-2004
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-09

1986 “...In 1986, he won the American Book Award for Arctic Dreams....”

Interviewee(s): Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-
Broadcast circa: 1989-08-28

1986 “...The first book in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy City of Glass, was nominated for an Edgar Award for best mystery of 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Auster, Paul, 1947-
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-03

1986 “...James Laughlin's New Directions reached the mellow age of 50 in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-08

1986 “...James Laughlin, who in 1986 celebrated a half-century as the publisher of New Directions....”

Interviewee(s): Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-09

1986 “...Originally published in 1986, and now a Plume New American Library paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Byron, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1987-05-08

1986 “...The writers who attended the 1986 International PEN Congress in New York were rarely in agreement on anything....”

Interviewee(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015 | Updike, John
Broadcast circa: 1986-03-10

1986 “...That novel, called Monkeys, published in 1986, got a big boost by being reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review....”

Interviewee(s): Minot, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-24

1986 “...Scribner survived although Charles Junior left the firm when it was sold to MacMillan in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1921-1995
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-24

1986 “...James Michener had major heart surgery in 1986 and describes himself as one of the walking wounded....”

Interviewee(s): Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997
Broadcast circa: 1989-11-17

1986 “...May 2nd, 1986, a project that involved 200 photographers....”

Interviewee(s): Smolan, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-12

1986 “...And 13 assignment editors were scattered throughout the United States to coordinate the activities of the lens-men, leading up to that single day in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Smolan, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-13

1986 “...On May 2nd, 1986, Rick Smolan was one of 200 photographers assigned to capture a single day in the life of America....”

Interviewee(s): Smolan, Rick
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-14

1986 “...The Paris Review reached a milestone in 1986 with its 100th issue, and George Plimpton is still the editor....”

Interviewee(s): Plimpton, George
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-04

1986 “...1986 marks the 25th birthday of Joseph Heller's dark comedy, Catch 22....”

Interviewee(s): Heller, Joseph
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-27

1986 “...Astronomer Clifford Stoll was in charge of a mainframe computer at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California in 1986 when he spotted a 75 cent computer discrepancy....”

Interviewee(s): Stoll, Clifford
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-15

1986 “...In a burst of energy, Reynolds Price finished Kate Vaiden, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986, and went on to write two more plays, a book of essays, a volume of poems, and his latest novel Good Hearts published by Atheneum....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-04

1986 “...It was several months before he was able to overcome his depression and finish it, and Price is glad he did, because Kate Vaiden won the 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1988-07-05

1986 “...Kate Vaiden which continues the story of Price's fictional Mustian family won the 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award....”

Interviewee(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-14

1986 “...The Canadian writer Robertson Davies, with some advice for fellow writers at the 1986 International Pen Congress, in New York....”

Interviewee(s): Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-04

1986 “...The wisdom of the Canadian writer, Robertson Davies, as he spoke before the 1986 International Pen Congress....”

Interviewee(s): Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-04

1986 “...When I first was offered a position with the firm in 1986, I indicated that I was gonna need some time to finish this novel, they agreed to that readily, so that there are all kinds of people I have to be grateful to....”

Interviewee(s): Turow, Scott
Broadcast circa: 1991-08-15

1986 “...1986 sees a new James Bond novel....”

Interviewee(s): Gardner, John, 1926-2007
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-02

1986 “...At the 1986 International PEN Congress in New York, there was much talk about totalitarianism, censorship, and the writer's subjugation by certain states....”

Interviewee(s): Miłosz, Czesław
Broadcast circa: 1986-04-07

1986 “...Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel "The Handmaid's Tale" has become a bestseller all over again thanks to the successful movie version of her futuristic tale....”

Interviewee(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-07

1986 “...Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel, The Handmaid's Tale, confirmed her position as one of Canada's leading writers....”

Interviewee(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1990-06-08

1986 “...One of the literary events of 1986 was the posthumous publication of a novella by Vladimir Nabokov which foreshadowed his controversial literary sensation, "Lolita."...”

Interviewee(s): Nabokov, Dmitri
Broadcast circa: 1986-12-25

1986 “...Bret Easton Ellis is a member of the 1986 graduating class of Bennington College in Vermont....”

Interviewee(s): Ellis, Bret Easton
Broadcast circa:

1986 “...That's Bret Easton Ellis, 1986 graduate of Bennington College in Vermont....”

Interviewee(s): Ellis, Bret Easton
Broadcast circa:

1986 “...The first volume of Maus appeared in 1986 as an original paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-27

1986 “...Spiegelman says every publisher he went to turned it down, but Pantheon took another look, and issued Maus 1 as an original paperback in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-29

1986 “...The late writer Raymond Carver in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-14

1986 “...That was Raymond Carver in a 1986 interview....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-16

1986 “...In 1986, Carver spoke about his desire for clarity and meaning in his work....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-17

1986 “...Elie Wiesel who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 was an orphan at the end of World War Two....”

Interviewee(s): Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-08

1986 “...In 1986 a journalist from Norway cornered Wiesel in the lobby of his apartment house and gave him some startling news about the Nobel Peace Prize....”

Interviewee(s): Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-09

1986 “...Elie Wiesel says that no honor or award will change him, not even the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-10

1986 “...With Waking the Dead, Knopf published one of the finest novels of 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Spencer, Scott
Broadcast circa: 1986-06-25

1986 “...1986, a busy year for the San Francisco writer Herbert Gold, the publishing house of Donald Fine has issued two books by the prolific Ohio born writer....”

Interviewee(s): Gold, Herbert, 1924-
Broadcast circa: 1986-09-01

1986 “...Theroux's 1986 novel Ozone is now in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Theroux, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1988-02-25

1986 “...Arctic Dreams, which won an American Book Award in 1986 tells us what the most northern reaches of the globe are like and why people such as Barry Lopez have been pulled there, like magnets....”

Interviewee(s): Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-26

1986 “...In Arctic Dreams, which won an American Book Award in 1986, Barry Lopez is moved to illuminate the reader about the far north and to share his own sense of wonder and awe....”

Interviewee(s): Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-27

1986 “...In order to track it all the way to 1986, I began with the story, which was for me, classically designed to introduce the idea of nurturing and...”

Interviewee(s): Morrison, Toni
Broadcast circa: 1988-04-21

1986 “...In addition, Carver was the editor of the Best American Short Stories of 1986 published by Houghton Mifflin....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-14

1986 “...Raymond Carver is best known for his skill as a short story writer, which is why Houghton Mifflin asked him to be the guest editor of The Best Short Stories of 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-15

1986 “...I spoke to him about it in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-05

1986 “...Here's an excerpt from a report I did on Carver in 1986....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1988-09-06

1986 “...New York City was picked as the site of the 1986 meeting, because Wolfe taught at NYU....”

Interviewee(s): Schneider, Duane
Broadcast circa: 1986-01-29

1986 “...In 1986 shortly after the death of his mother, Yardley was visiting his father in Rhode Island, when he inadvertently opened a file cabinet containing his families records....”

Interviewee(s): Yardley, Jonathan
Broadcast circa: 1989-07-03

1987 “...Leedom-Ackerman hopes to publish her first novel perhaps in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): Leedom-Ackerman, Joanne, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1986-07-11

1987 “...British writer Ian McEwan visited the Soviet Union in 1987, where he thought about writing a novel whose backdrop would be the fading Cold War....”

Interviewee(s): McEwan, Ian
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-27

1987 “...T. Coraghessan Boyle, his novel World's End won rave reviews in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-05

1987 “...Writer Hugh Nissenson was in the courtroom in Leone, France when the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie went on trial in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): Nissenson, Hugh
Broadcast circa: 1989-02-17

1987 “...P.W. says the figures aren't all in, but it would appear that total book output last year may be close to 1987's, when the publishing industry produced just over 56,000 titles, both hardcover and paperback....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-31

1987 “...Piers Anthony, Ace/Putnam has published his latest novel, "Robot Adept" and his 1987 novel, "Out of Phaze" is now an Ace paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Anthony, Piers
Broadcast circa: 1988-03-30

1987 “...The 1987 edition of the World Almanac is in the book stores and news stands....”

Interviewee(s): Hoffman, Mark (Mark S.)
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-18

1987 “...The 1987 World Almanac, in paper and hardcover, and if you really want to impress someone, you can get the World Almanac in a leather bound edition....”

Interviewee(s): Hoffman, Mark (Mark S.)
Broadcast circa: 1987-02-18

1987 “...James Ellroy's novel, The Black Dahlia, based on the brutal, unsolved 1948 murder of a young woman in L.A., was published in 1987, his breakthrough book and the first novel in what he calls his L.A. quartet....”

Interviewee(s): Ellroy, James, 1948-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-09

1987 “...Is it going to be a book that you can pinpoint, hopefully, to 1987?...”

Interviewee(s): Parent, Gail
Broadcast circa: 1987-06-25

1987 “...By 1987, the writer Louis Auchincloss will have created 40 books, the newest a collection of short stories....”

Interviewee(s): Auchincloss, Louis
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-29

1987 “...His 40th book, A Collection Of Short Stories, will be out in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): Auchincloss, Louis
Broadcast circa: 1986-10-31

1987 “...But in 1987, for a mere 10 dollar advance, Penzler Books finally bought Safe Keeping, which is now a Dell/Laurel paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Mcdonald, Gregory, 1937-2008
Broadcast circa: 1988-01-29

1987 “...Wilfrid Sheed's 1987 novel, The Boys of Winter, was about a group of writers and editors who form a summer softball team on Long Island....”

Interviewee(s): Sheed, Wilfrid
Broadcast circa: 1990-07-10

1987 “...1987 marks a significant literary event....”

Interviewee(s): Taylor, Judy, 1932-
Broadcast circa: 1987-11-04

1987 “...The novel in progress became the critically-praised, Anywhere but Here, published in 1987, the story of a mother and daughter who leave their Native Midwest for California where the mother hopes to turn the girl into a child star....”

Interviewee(s): Simpson, Mona
Broadcast circa: 1992-04-15

1987 “...Later Mona Simpson worked as an editor for the Paris Review, and in 1987, when she was 29, published a well-received first novel,...”

Interviewee(s): Simpson, Mona
Broadcast circa: 1993-01-07

1987 “...The Fourth Protocol is set in 1987, and a real British trader, Kim Philby, helps to plot a Soviet attempt to set off a small atomic bomb in England....”

Interviewee(s): Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-26

1987 “...But in 1987, cancer was detected in his lung....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-18

1987 “...By 1987, Listen For Pleasure expects to have more than 300 cassette titles in book and audio stores, as well as in its Shop...”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-12

1987 “...Audio publishing is competitive enough that Dan Roth of Newman Communications is predicting a number of causalities by 1987....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1986-02-20

1987 “...That's about 1% less than 1987, when a record 56,027 books were published....”

Interviewee(s): R.R. Bowker Company
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1987 “...But Beverley Lamar, who computes the data for the Bowker company, says that contrary to what the figures suggest, there were actually more individual titles published in 1988 than in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): R.R. Bowker Company
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1987 “...A Feast for Lawyers costs $18.95 and would have been worth 2.8 million dollars to me if I had had the information that's in that book in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): Stein, Sol
Broadcast circa: 1990-02-19

1987 “...If we're to understand what's going on in the United States in 1987, I think we have to understand and study the life of Jackie Robinson....”

Interviewee(s): Allen, Maury, 1932-2010
Broadcast circa: 1987-08-10

1987 “...1987 marks the 20th anniversary of a novel for young adults called, The Outsiders....”

Interviewee(s): Hinton, S. E.
Broadcast circa: 1987-07-14

1987 “...But there was a book banning in Alaska in 1987 that has Noble scratching his head....”

Interviewee(s): Noble, William
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-21

1987 “...Look for a new short story collection from him in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
Broadcast circa: 1986-11-16

1988 “...She says virtually every magazine in America turned down the short stories that were eventually gathered into book form as Bad Behavior, published in 1988....”

Interviewee(s): Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-11

1988 “...Somebody said, I think to Studs Turkel, what's the best book you read in 1988, and he said, The Grapes of Wrath. ...”

Interviewee(s): Steinbeck, Elaine A.
Broadcast circa:

1988 “...Don Swaim, news '88....”

Interviewee(s): Tryon, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-13

1988 “...PW says that in 1988, 51 works of fiction sold more than 100,000 copies while 76 nonfiction books achieved that distinction....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-30

1988 “...For the most part, the authors of the 1988 fiction list were the familiar names, whose very accessible books had built giant followings....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-30

1988 “...Publisher's Weekly says that at the top of the nonfiction list for 1988 was a book called The 8 Week Cholesterol Cure by Robert Kowalski....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-30

1988 “...12 mass-market paperbacks sold 3 million copies or more in 1988, and the authors were the familiar ones....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-31

1988 “...The average price for a hardcover novel in 1988 was $17.84, for a mass-market paperback, $4.00....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-31

1988 “...There were a lot of failed expectations among publishers in 1988, books that began with big press runs of 100,000 copies or more, with lots of money budgeted for promotion and, yet, fizzled....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-03-31

1988 “...In a 1988 interview, Asimov recalled that he was 19 when he sold his first science fiction story in 1939....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1988 “...In 1988, Asimov spoke of going to John Campbell, legendary editor of Astounding Stories, to talk to him about the idea....”

Interviewee(s): Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992
Broadcast circa:

1988 “...One of the nation's best writers is Jane Smiley, author of the 1988 novel, The Greenlanders, a historical saga about the Norse world of the 14th Century....”

Interviewee(s): Smiley, Jane
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-22

1988 “...Jane Smiley's seventh and most recent book tackles less ambitious themes than the 14th century north world of her 1988 novel, The Greenlanders....”

Interviewee(s): Smiley, Jane
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-23

1988 “...His first book, published in 1988, Come Sunday, is a multi-faceted novel, with many narrators....”

Interviewee(s): Morrow, Bradford, 1951-
Broadcast circa: 1992-11-13

1988 “...In 1988, blinding smoke from a field burning contributed to a 24 vehicle pile-up on an interstate....”

Interviewee(s): Wharton, William
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-04

1988 “...Novelist Paul Watkins was just 21 when his first novel, Night over Day over Night, was published in 1988....”

Interviewee(s): Watkins, Paul, 1964-
Broadcast circa: 1993-05-03

1988 “...The Cheever's sued Academy Chicago to stop the publication of the book and the issue has been in the courts since 1988, a bitter and expensive experience for everyone involved....”

Interviewee(s): Cheever, Susan
Broadcast circa: 1991-06-26

1988 “...Jerzy Kosinski, in a 1988 interview....”

Interviewee(s): Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991
Broadcast circa: 1991-05-14

1988 “...Burke is back in Andrew Vachss' most recent thriller Hard Candy as well as the 1988 novel Blue Belle just out in paperback....”

Interviewee(s): Vachss, Andrew H.
Broadcast circa: 1990-01-26

1988 “...In 1988 more than sixty thousand young Ethiopians were killed in battles as massive as those in World War II and yet little is known about that bloody war....”

Interviewee(s): Keneally, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1989-12-26

1988 “...Raymond Carver's untimely death at the age of 50 in 1988 cut short a career that had made Carver one of the most influential short story writers in the mid-1980s....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-14

1988 “...Despite the surgery, the cancer in Carver's body continued to spread and by 1988, had reached his brain....”

Interviewee(s): Gallagher, Tess
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-18

1988 “...In 1988, Paul Monette published Borrowed Time, a memoir about his lover Roger's futile battle with AIDS....”

Interviewee(s): Monette, Paul
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-16

1988 “...Although, there was some apparent slippage in 1988....”

Interviewee(s): R.R. Bowker Company
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1988 “...The R.R. Bowker company, which keeps tabs on such things, says that 55,483 titles, hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperbacks, were published in 1988....”

Interviewee(s): R.R. Bowker Company
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1988 “...But Beverley Lamar, who computes the data for the Bowker company, says that contrary to what the figures suggest, there were actually more individual titles published in 1988 than in 1987....”

Interviewee(s): R.R. Bowker Company
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1988 “...There was a big drop in the number of mass market paperbacks in '88, 3,021 titles were published, nearly 23% less than the year before....”

Interviewee(s): R.R. Bowker Company
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1988 “...The cost of a book actually went down a little in 1988....”

Interviewee(s): R.R. Bowker Company
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1988 “...Salaries can be respectable, however, PW notes that the average base pay for a publisher in 1988 was $99,400, even more for the owner or president....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1988 “...An editor-in-chief could do all right too, with an average annual wage of $53,700 in 1988....”

Interviewee(s):
Broadcast circa: 1989-10-20

1988 “...In 1988, Aaron Elkins was one of five finalists in the running for the coveted Edgar Award for top mystery of the year....”

Interviewee(s): Elkins, Aaron J.
Broadcast circa: 1990-10-16

1988 “...In March 1988, the silent student community at Gallaudet University in Washington staged an uprising not unlike the student rebellions of the 1960's....”

Interviewee(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-21

1988 “...The novel Mark Childress produced was published in 1988, V For Victor, the tale of a 16- year-old boy who tries to capture a Nazi U-boat that wanders into Mobile Bay....”

Interviewee(s): Childress, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-05

1988 “...In 1988, Michael Cunningham published a story, part of a novel, in The New Yorker....”

Interviewee(s): Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-09

1988 “...Mary Higgins Clark is coordinating a 1988 International Crime Congress which is expected to attract mystery writers from around the world....”

Interviewee(s): Clark, Mary Higgins
Broadcast circa: 1987-10-13

1989 “...Their book American Chronicle is out in a second edition and lists in detail the events trivial and major, year by year between 1920 and 1989,...”

Interviewee(s): Gordon, Lois G.
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-02

1989 “...There was a lot of competition for the National Book Award in 1989, but the winning fiction was a dark horse....”

Interviewee(s): Casey, John, 1939-
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-13

1989 “...Fuentes scathing criticism of the United States prompted the government to bar him from the US from 1962 to 1989....”

Interviewee(s): Fuentes, Carlos
Broadcast circa: 1992-06-19

1989 “...The novel begins in January, 1989, with the president elect about to be inaugurated....”

Interviewee(s): Buckley, Christopher, 1952-
Broadcast circa: 1987-01-28

1989 “...Paul Watkins' 1989 novel, Calm and Sunset,...”

Interviewee(s): Watkins, Paul, 1964-
Broadcast circa: 1993-05-05

1989 “...The result of Grass' sojourn in Calcutta was his surreal, lavishly illustrated 1989 book, Show Your Tongue....”

Interviewee(s): Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-11

1989 “...This one's called the Panic of '89....”

Interviewee(s): Erdman, Paul, 1932-2007
Broadcast circa: 1987-03-13

1989 “...That's Josephine Humphreys, who in 1989 was busy writing a novel when Hurricane Hugo hit her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina....”

Interviewee(s): Humphreys, Josephine
Broadcast circa: 1991-09-02

1989 “...In 1989, Rushdie went into hiding with his then wife, Marianne Wiggins, also a writer....”

Interviewee(s): Wiggins, Marianne
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-17

1989 “...His 1989 novel...”

Interviewee(s): Francis, Dick
Broadcast circa: 1990-04-02

1989 “...The last book in the trilogy will take Ivan Doig's fictional McCaskill family to the present in time to celebrate Montana's 100 years of statehood, in 1989....”

Interviewee(s): Doig, Ivan
Broadcast circa: 1987-12-16

1989 “...In 1989, Mark Helprin signed a contract to write six books for his publisher, Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich....”

Interviewee(s): Helprin, Mark
Broadcast circa: 1991-08-30

1989 “...18,000 pages were reviewed in 1989 by the CIA Publications Review Board....”

Interviewee(s): Noble, William
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-19

1990s “...The book designates recipes as fast or easy for the busy cook of the 90s....”

Interviewee(s): Henry, Linda (Linda J.)
Broadcast circa: 1989-09-15

1990s “...Of course looking back now from the '90s it looks incredibly innocent....”

Interviewee(s): Wakefield, Dan
Broadcast circa: 1992-07-01

1990s “...Despite the despair of the '90s, the young people of Coupland's book are optimistic....”

Interviewee(s): Coupland, Douglas
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-13

1990s “...Oh, Don, I love all these '90s toys, faxes, and remote phones, and I wish we had them decades ago....”

Interviewee(s): Coupland, Douglas
Broadcast circa: 1992-09-14

1990 “...There are some people who had been educated there and you would expect would know better who can't tell the difference between 1960 and 1990....”

Interviewee(s): Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
Broadcast circa: 1990-12-12

1990 “...Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman won the 1990 Pen Faulkner Award....”

Interviewee(s): Wideman, John Edgar
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-20

1990 “...We felt that Pride and Prejudice needed a little more action for the 1990's, so we've done a book called Pride and Extreme Prejudice....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-01

1990 “...For his 1990 novel, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, Paul Watkins went to the Sahara Desert for research....”

Interviewee(s): Watkins, Paul, 1964-
Broadcast circa: 1993-05-05

1990 “...Medicine River was published to good reviews in 1990, and King has followed it with Green Grass, Running Water, also set in Canada and also centered around a group of modern Blackfoot Indians....”

Interviewee(s): King, Thomas, 1943-
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-07

1991 “...The New York Times names Stanley Elkin's The MacGuffin, with all of its black comedy, one of the notable books of 1991....”

Interviewee(s): Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995
Broadcast circa: 1992-02-11

1991 “...But, in 1991, Farrar Straus & Giroux published the finished manuscript of Harold Brodkey's novel, "The Runaway Soul....”

Interviewee(s): Brodkey, Harold
Broadcast circa: 1992-12-30

1991 “...The next three books in what Tryon calls his Kingdom Come quartet will arrive in yearly intervals, the second due in the fall of 1991....”

Interviewee(s): Tryon, Thomas
Broadcast circa: 1990-11-14

1991 “...The New York Times named Art Spiegelman's memorable graphic novel Maus as one of the 10 best books of 1991....”

Interviewee(s): Spiegelman, Art
Broadcast circa: 1992-01-27

1992 “...Outer Bridge Reach by Robert Stone, one of The New York Times' most notable books of 1992, is now in paperback from Harper Perennial....”

Interviewee(s): Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
Broadcast circa: 1993-04-02

1992 “...Bush administration is disgraced by the machinations of Marilyn Quayle, who senses that her husband is not gonna be included on the ticket in 1992 and, therefore, she first tries to seduce George Bush and then tries to poison him....”

Interviewee(s): Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1990-09-11

1993 “...Warday is set in the United States in 1993, five years after a limited nuclear attack....”

Interviewee(s): Strieber, Whitley
Broadcast circa: 1984-06-07

1999 “...Martin Amis' most recent novel is London Fields, a darkly funny, often scatological vision of London in 1999, and of a young woman who plots her own murder....”

Interviewee(s): Amis, Martin
Broadcast circa: 1990-05-30

2000 “...It includes just some of the 2000 letters she receives each month, and reflects the thoughts and concerns and fears of young people in today's world....”

Interviewee(s): Blume, Judy
Broadcast circa: 1986-06-09

2000 “...Sloan Wilson's first book was called Voyage to Somewhere, which came out in an edition of 2000, and sold 16 hundred copies....”

Interviewee(s): Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Broadcast circa: 1984-05-15

2000 “...He was also the editor of an Anthology of Contemporary American Poets: The Generation of 2000....”

Interviewee(s): Heyen, William, 1940-
Broadcast circa: 1984-10-02

2000 “...A Space Odyssey, but not everyone remembers 2000: A Space Iliad....”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-02

2000 “...We needed to be able to have a line value of 2000 lines per inch, which means that you're dealing with four million little pieces of ink on the surface of the paper....”

Interviewee(s): Hammond, Dean
Broadcast circa: 1993-02-23

2001 “...Everyone's heard of 2001:...”

Interviewee(s): Cerf, Christopher
Broadcast circa: 1991-04-02

2060 “...In Tevis's world of 2060, Macy's is a coal storage bin, Bloomingdale's is a bus station....”

Interviewee(s): Tevis, Walter S.
Broadcast circa: 1984-01-19

3290 “...To all ranks, be it known that Sergeant David Schoenbrun, 32904876, is on a special mission for this headquarters and cooperation of all ranks is required....”

Interviewee(s): Schoenbrun, David
Broadcast circa: 1984-11-27

5000 “...You could kill 5000 one month and you kill 5000 the next month...”

Interviewee(s): Karnow, Stanley
Broadcast circa: 1983-10-20

9519 “...Entries can be sent to the English department of San Jose State University, San Jose, California, 95192....”

Interviewee(s): Rice, Scott, 1941-
Broadcast circa: 1983-01-13