Writers in Conversation Volume 4

Marc Notes: Published for Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies. Publisher Marketing: WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of the working writer today. Volume 4 features interviews with David Leavitt, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, David Lodge, Javier Marias, Blake Morrison, Toni Morrison, John Mortimer, Michael Ondaatje, Stephen Poliakoff, Irina Ratushinskaya, Salman Rushdie, Nawal El Saadawi, Jane Smiley, Alexander McCall Smith, Tom Stoppard, Graham Swift, Amy Tan, Colm Toibin, Claire Tomalin with Michael Frayn, Rose Tremain, Jane Urquhart, Peter Ustinov and Shirley Williams. Contributor Bio:  Bigsby, Christopher Christopher Bigsby is the author of the award-winning HESTER, a novel about the early life of Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and of the American Library Association Notable Book, BEAUTIFUL DREAMER. He is also author of an award-winning biography of Arthur Miller.