Helen Keller 27 June 1880- 1 June 1968 Place of birth: Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA Best thing about her: She was the first both deaf and blind person to get a bachelor\’s degree in art. Most important book: The Story Of My Life Interesting fact: She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the […]
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In 1958, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series, interviewed crime writer Raymond Chandler for the BBC. This is the only recording of Chandler’s voice. Listening to their conversation is like eavesdropping on two master genre writers talk shop.
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Upton Sinclair September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968 Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA Best thing about him: He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 Most important book: The Jungle, 1906 Interesting fact: He has written more than 100 books His book Oil! (1927) was adapted as the film There Will Be
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In a pleasant Scottish brogue, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle talks about how he started writingSherlock Holmes (“I began to think of turning scientific methods, as it were, onto the work of detection”) and the character’s popularity (“I’ve even had ladies writing to say that they’d be very glad to act as [Holmes’] housekeeper”). Then the
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While many stereotype Sylvia Plath as moribund and depressed, this interview reveals a sharp, enthusiastic person with an adroit ability to turn a phrase. “Poetry,” she says, “is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you’ve just got to burn away all the peripherals.”
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Evan Lorenzen is an illustrator and animator based in Denver, Colorado. Amongst his paintings and animated works, he recently developed several series of micro handmade–books not bigger than the size of a thumbnail. The themes he uses for his petit books vary from life’s little pleasures to major life events, satirizing their content in the
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In this 1952 interview, John Steinbeck talked about writing The Grapes of Wrath and how things had changed since the book was published in 1939. He’s surprisingly optimistic about the changes in American society since the Great Depression: “We have solved so many of [the problems] and the solutions have been the product of ourselves,
Man Showcases The World’s Most Unusual Libraries In An Amazing Book. Yes it is true that we are all living in a digital era. The era of technology, of screens and keyboards, rather than pens and pages. But there are some who agree that there is nothing more timeless than a good book and a
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In 1958, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series, interviewed crime writer Raymond Chandler for the BBC. This is the only recording of Chandler’s voice. Listening to their conversation is like eavesdropping on two master genre writers talk shop.
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In a 1987 interview, Arthur Miller talks about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. In addition to thoughtful insight into Monroe’s psychology, he discusses the reception of After The Fall, a play he wrote about his relationship with Monroe.
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