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  • Spring 2001 Flying Starts

    | 06/25/2001 @ 12:00AM

    A quintet of authors and illustrators are off to promising beginnings, in their spring debuts.

  • PW Talks with Walter Cronkite

    Matthew Nelson | 06/18/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: You've written of your sailing experiences before. How did the idea for Around America arise?

  • PW Talks with Alan Dershowitz

    Sarah F. Gold | 06/18/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: The origin of Supreme Injustice was a little different for you: The idea came from Tim Bartlett, your editor at Oxford. What was your immediate reaction when he asked you to do this book—did you already have a firm conclusion about the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore?

  • PW Talks with Peter David

    M.M. Hall | 06/18/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: Though Sir Apropos of Nothing is basically a satiric comedy, all the characters have tragic undertones. What inspired this balance?

  • A Hero Can Save You: PW Talks with Walter Mosley

    Robert C. Hahn | 05/28/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW caught up with Walter Mosley at the famed MacDowell Colony for artists in Peterborough, N.H.

  • PW Talks with P.L. Gaus

    Ralph Menconi | 05/21/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: How did a professor of chemistry and alternative cultures come to write mystery novels set in Ohio Amish country?

  • PW Talks with Charles Osgood

    Lynn Andriani | 05/21/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW met with Charles Osgood in his modest office in the CBS Broadcasting Building in Manhattan. Wearing his customary bowtie, Osgood ignored the incessant ringing of the old-fashioned phone on his desk and talked about the book he has edited, Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II.

  • PW Talks with Andrew Solomon

    Michael Bronski | 05/17/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: You've said that you wrote The Noonday Demon because it was the book that you wanted to read, but couldn't find, when you became depressed. Its scope is unusually broad, moving from autobiography to sociology to literary criticism. Did you envision this wide range of approaches when you began writing it?

  • PW Talks with Barbara Ehrenreich

    Charlotte Abbott | 05/17/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: You earned a doctorate in biology, but your nonfiction books have centered on social issues—from women and medicine, to the construction of masculinity, to the politics of class in American society and even a theory of war. In Nickel and Dimed, you go undercover as a low-wage worker. How do your books tie together?

  • PW Talks with Elizabeth Peters

    By Jean Swanson | 04/23/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: Lord of the Silent is the 13th Amelia Peabody mystery. How has the series changed over the years?

  • PW Talks with Wynton Marsalis

    Libby Stephens | 04/23/2001 @ 06:00AM

    PW: Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life isn't your typical tale of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. What kept your septet so rooted for four years?

  • PW Talks with Kent Walker

    Edward Nawotka | 04/16/2001 @ 04:00AM

    PW: What gave you the impetus to write Son of a Grifter?

  • PW Talks with Margaret Maron

    Pat Koch | 04/09/2001 @ 04:00AM

    PW: Your first series character, NYPD lieutenant Sigrid Harald, made her debut in One Coffee With in 1981. How did you come to write about a New York character and location when you're from North Carolina?

  • PW Talks with David McCullough

    Edward Nawotka | 04/02/2001 @ 04:00AM

    PW: You won a Pulitzer for your biography of Truman. How was writing the biography John Adams different?

  • PW Talks to Tananarive Due

    by Stefan Dziemianowicz | 03/19/2001 @ 05:00AM

    PW: Your most recent novel, The Living Blood, continues the story of Jessica and her immortal husband, David. Did you plan from the start to write a follow-up to My Soul to Keep?

  • PW Talks with Chris Crutcher

    Jennifer M. Brown | 03/12/2001 @ 05:00AM

    PW: From your very first novel, Running Loose (Greenwillow, 1983), you have dealt with adolescent outsiders. What first attracted you to the kind of fringe characters who emerge as heroes in Whale Talk and in so many of your novels?

  • PW Talks to Donald Westlake

    Jean Swanson | 03/05/2001 @ 05:00AM

    PW: Bad News is the first Dortmunder book in five years. Why that long?

  • PW Talks with Valerie Harper

    Kevin Howell | 03/05/2001 @ 05:00AM

    PW:Today I Am a Ma'am is a humorous but sincere look at "women of a certain age." How did it develop into a book?

  • PW Talks with Sally Denton and Roger Morris

    Staff | 02/26/2001 @ 05:00AM

  • Michael Brenson: Visionaries And Outcasts

    Geoffrey Jacques | 02/19/2001 @ 07:00AM

    Writing about art is more than just a job for Michael Brenson.

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