american novelists

A series of interviews with noted author William S. Burroughs, where he tells of his drug addiction and cure, as well as his views on youth, sex, drugs, writing, politics, revolution, and other controversial topics.

A biography of twentieth-century American author Bernard Malamud, discussing his poverty-stricken childhood, his mother's probably suicide, his brother's schizophrenia, his working methods, and his use of his life experiences in his writing.

Jennifer Boylan discusses how she spent the first forty years of life knowing she was a woman trapped in a man's body and explores how her physical, emotional, and spiritual life was changed after a sex-change operation.

A biography of best-selling romance novelist Danielle Steel, drawing parallels between her life and those of the characters who inhabit her fictional worlds.

Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer, discussing her Mormon childhood, and describing the dream that led her to write the bestselling novel that began the series.