This collection of 20 interviews with and articles about noted writers covers fantasy, poetry, mystery, journalism, drama as well as literary, experimental and commercial fiction.
* In London, Agatha Christie's theatrical producer guards the secrets of "The Mousetrap."
* In Stratford-upon-Avon, actor Derek Jacobi challenges the scholarly interpretation of Shakespeare.
* At Florida's Cross Creek, friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings pay homage to her memory.
* On Georgia's St. Simons Island, Eugenia Price shuns her label as a "Christian novelist."
* Behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner warns us about a pending but preventable "apocalypse."
* Southern novelist and journalist Harry Crews remembers his torturous but character-building childhood.
* Tennessee Williams dodges the press.
* Larry McMurtry describes the process of writing his epic "Lonesome Dove."
* John Mortimer testifies on behalf of "Rumpole of the Bailey."
* Chaim Potok, author of "The Chosen," renounces religious fundamentalism.
* Richard Adams, author of "Watership Down," looks deep into his subconscious.
* African poet Kofi Awoonor summons the ghosts of his ancestors.
* Bel Kaufman leads a new generation "Up the Down Staircase."
* Evan Hunter, Richard Eberhart, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Andre Norton and others talk about the art and business of writing.

Kirkus Reviews: "An eclectic collection that illuminates the writing processes... Headlined by discussions with 'Lonesome Dove' author Larry McMurtry and 'Watership Down' writer Richard Adams, White's selection of stories contains intimate sit-downs with authors from a wide range of genres... The stories are most rewarding when White and the writers engage in philosophical discourse. Interviews with poet Richard Eberhart, behavioral psychologist and utopian theorist B.F. Skinner and religious writer Chaim Potok particularly stand out as lively and deep. White often mimics the style of his subject, which keeps the writing fresh, and no story is more captivating than his interview with Calvin Hoffman, a leading voice for the theory that Christopher Marlowe was the true author behind Shakespeare's works. Reading like a murder mystery, Hoffman's devoted obsessions with Shakespeare's life and Marlowe's vaguely reported death is shrouded in debate and wholly engrossing."

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