People Books and Book People

by David Willis McCullough

The best of the decade's literary talents, as well as photographers, politicians, chefs, artists and actors, talk about themselves and their work in this collection of provocative interviews... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517543885
• ISBN13: 9780517543887
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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Here's a collection of columns titled "Eye on Books" that McCullough wrote over the years for the Book of the Month Club News. He interviewed various authors. The purpose of the interviews was to "let the authors speak as directly to the reader as I could arrange it."It's always fascinating and illuminating to see what writers have to say about their lives and their works; their experiences in "birthing," as it were, the books they write. Because he's a writer, McCullough seems to get at the crux of each interview with laser-like precision.Anyone who loves books and writing and wants to know more about writers and what they say about their books will love this one. McCullough writes in the easy journalistic style he brings to his Pulitzer Prize winning biographies TRUMAN and JOHN ADAMS.