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The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists

by Neil Baldwin

ISBN13: 9780307793652
ISBN10: 0307793656
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In a collection of interviews, fifteen National Book Award winners and finalists--including James Carroll, Don DeLillo, E. L. Doctorow, David McCullough, Alice McDermott, and Cynthia Ozick--examine the profound relationship between reading and writing and describe the book that has had a profound influence on his or her life. Original. 20,000 first printing.

About the Author

Diane Osen is a freelance writer and editor specializing in the arts, and has worked with dozens of National Book Award authors during her fourteen-year association with the National Book Foundation. Co-editor of The Writing Life, an NBA anthology published by Random House in 1996, she is also the author of Royal Scandals and the co-author of Great Interview.

Neil Baldwin is the executive director of the National Book Foundation and the sponsor of the National Book Awards. He has written several books, including, most recently, Henry Ford and the Jews.

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ISBN:: 9780307793652
Subtitle:: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists
Publisher:: Modern Library
Author:: Foundation (U.S.), National Book
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20020917
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 184

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