American writers
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American writers
（The spoken word）
British Library Board, c2008
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Non-musical Sound Recording（Compact Audio Disc）
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
On this triple CD, published to coincide with the British Writers CD set, some 27 American Writers talk about their lives and work. Most of the recordings come from BBC broadcasts and many have not been published before. Highlights on this CD include: rare recordings of two early American winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis and Pearl Buck. It also features Arthur Miller talking about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and John Steinbeck talking about why he wrote "The Grapes of Wrath".
Table of Contents
Featured recordings:Gertude Stein|Sinclair Lewis|Anita Loos|Raymond Chandler| Eugene O'Neil|Henry Miller|Pearl Buck|James Thurber|F. Scott Fitzgerald| Thornton Wilder|Vladimir Nabokov|John Steinbeck|Isaac Bashevis Singer|Lillian Hellman|James A.Mitchner|Eudora Welty| Tennesse Williams|Mary McCarthy|William S Burroughs|Ralph Ellison|Saul Bellow|Arthur Miller|Patricia Highsmith|James Baldwin|William Styron|Gore Vidal|Toni Morrison
by "Nielsen BookData"
