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PW Talks with Charles O'Brien
PW: What is the relationship between your works of fiction and your career as a historian?
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PW Talks to Paul Eddy
PW: In Flint's Law, Grace Flint's tear-away pursuit of her adversaries brands her as a rogue operative, as did your previous novel about her. Is it actually possible for individual agents to mount solo investigations as she does?
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PW Talks with Elizabeth Maguire
PW: The jacket design for your mystery debut, Thinner, Blonder, Whiter, is sexy and posh. Yet you're known as a publisher of serious books about race, gender and class inequalities. Have you been keeping the "real" you in check?
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PW Talks with Philip Caputo
PW: You may be better known as a fiction writer, and you even dealt with Africa in one of your previous novels, Horn of Africa. What do you find are the distinct challenges of writing fiction and nonfiction, such as in your newest book, Ghosts of Tsavo?
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PW Talks with Katharine Holabird
Back in 1983, Angelina Mouseling, a feisty young ballet enthusiast, pirouetted into the children's book world as the heroine of Angelina Ballerina, a picture book by Katharine Holabird, illustrated by Helen Craig. Holabird, an American-born mother and former nursery school teacher living in England, and British artist Craig became a fine-tuned team, creating a series of nine Angelina adventures.
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PW Talks with Ayelet Waldman
PW: You have a lot in common with Juliet Applebaum, the heroine in A Playdate with Death. Like you, she's an attorney and a former federal public defender who gave it up to become a stay-at-home mom. What prompted you to start writing?
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PW Talks with T.D. Jakes
PW: Your new book, God's Leading Lady, promises to help women emerge "out of the shadows and into the light." Why did you write it?
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PW Talks with Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler, as the official representative of Lemony Snicket (author of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books) in all legal, literary and social matters, often appears in place of Snicket at author appearances.
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PW Talks with Lee Child
PW: What was your inspiration for your atypical leading man, Jack Reacher, in Without Fail?
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PW Talks with Carole Nelson Douglas
PW: What inspired you to create Midnight Louie?
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PW Talks with Kevin Phillips
PW: Wealth and Democracy is not only an astute analysis of contemporary U.S. economics, but a sweeping, detailed examination of how capital has affected governance over the past 400 years. Is Broadway hoping that it crosses over to a broader reading public?
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PW Talks with Caroline Kennedy
PW: Your new book, Profiles in Courage for Our Time, offers portraits of recipients of the Profiles in Courage Award. What led your family to create an award based on the kind of moral and political courage your father discussed in his book?
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PW Talks with Mary Wells Lawrence
PW met Mary Wells Lawrence at her suite at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan. Nestled among animal-print pillows and sipping espresso, the wide-eyed, lively doyenne of advertising spoke about her book, A Big Life in Advertising.
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PW Talks with Kate White
PW: You're currently the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. What inspired you to write If Looks Could Kill, a whodunit?
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PW Talks with Stephen Mitchell
PW: Your book Jesus: What He Really Said and Did adapts your The Gospel According to Jesus (HarperCollins, 1991) for a teenage audience. How did the new work evolve?
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PW Talks with Herman Gollob
PW: You have an unusually strong attachment to Shakespeare. What got you started?
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PW Talks to David Anthony Durham
PW: What inspired you to write your latest novel, Walk Through Darkness, an account of a fugitive slave's agonizing search for his lost love?
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PW Talks with John Gregory Betancourt
John Gregory Betancourt is publisher of Wildside Press, which published The Chronocide Mission.
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PW Talks with James Cross Giblin
Giblin, author of more than 20 books for young readers, was publisher of Clarion Books until taking early retirement in 1989 (he continues to edit a few of his long-time authors). His newest work is The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler.
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PW Talks with Stephen Jay Gould
PW: You've succeeded at being a bestseller as a technical as well as a trade science writer, and in the introduction to your new book, I Have Landed, you say the boundary between the two is not as defined as it once was.