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From History to Mystery: A Genre-Jumper Explains
PW: You started out writing historical romances, then you tried your hand at romantic suspense novels, and now you're writing FBI thrillers like Blindside. Was this a natural progression?
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Face to Face with Terrorists
PW: Early in the research for Terror in the Name of God, a friend suggested that when you interviewed religious terrorists, you should imagine yourself as ready to become one of them. Were you able to do that?
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From Fiction to Nonfiction and Back
PW: In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, you were publishing a novel every two years. Secret Father is your first in nine years. Is there a reason you chose not to write fiction during that period? James Carroll: I started writing a weekly column for the Boston Globe just as I was finishing my last novel.
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The Golden State Loses Its Luster: PW Talks with Joan Didion
Joan Didion's new book, Where I Was From, takes a strongly critical view of California.
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Stalking the Wild Eco-Killer
PW: What inspired The Killing Hour's depraved but environmentally concerned "Eco" serial killer?
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Girl on Film
PW spoke with Traci Lords at the offices of Book Expo America 2003, which Lords attended to promote her forthcoming autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All.
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Antiwar Activism, Starring Patty Hearst
PW: Your novel, American Woman, is about the Patty Hearst kidnapping, which took place when you were a child. How did you become interested in the case?
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Revealing a Secret After 30 Years
PW: What inspired you to write this book now?
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Fathers and Sons Revisited
PW: What made you want to tackle the subject of In Praise of Nepotism?
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Writing to Find Some Kind of Peace of Mind
PW: After so many novels, what made you decide to write a memoir?
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Fragile Stones
PW: Why did you want to write A Fragile Stone, about the apostle Peter?
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(War) Bride and Prejudice
PW: Why does the title of your new memoir refer to WWII as "our" war?
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A Sea of Recipes
PW: All of the 250 recipes in The New York Times Seafood Cookbook were previously published in the New York Times. How did you go about selecting them?
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Happy Days with Hank
Perhaps best known as The Fonz on television's Happy Days, actor, producer, director and writer Henry Winkler is making a splash with a new generation of fans.
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Murder, with Music
PW: You've won a Grammy for your song writing, two Edgars for Broadway plays and multiple Tonys for your Broadway play The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and you have just been nominated for a Tony in the Best Play category for your current show on Broadway, Good Night, Gracie. What made you decide to write a novel [Where the Truth Lies]?
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Growing Up in Wigton, Cumbria
PW: You obviously share a great deal of your own experience in your books about growing up in Wigton in the postwar years, which gives both The Soldier's Return and A Son of War remarkable authenticity.
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The Forest Jews of Belarus
PW: Your book, The Bielski Brothers, tells of three Jewish brothers who hid in the forest in Belarus during the Holocaust and eventually established a kind of town there with 1,200 inhabitants. How did you first learn about this story?
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'The Iliad' as Science Fiction
PW: Your debut novel, Song of Kali, was dark fantasy. Since then you've written in many different genres. There aren't that many writers who do this kind of genre jumping with such success. What's your secret?
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Thrilled, Thrilling, Thrillers
PW: How does The Kill Clause differ from your previous books?
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The Booklover's Big Apple: PW Daily Talks with Leonard Marcus
Leonard Marcus, author of the new book Storied City: A Children's Book Walking Tour Guide to New York City (Dutton), as well as many other books focusing on children's book authors and artists, including Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, spoke with PW Daily about the seeds for his new book.
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