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This collection of 20 interviews with and articles about noted writers covers fantasy, poetry, mystery, journalism, drama as well as literary, experimental and commercial fiction. * In London, Agatha Christie's theatrical producer guards the secrets of The Mousetrap. * In Stratford-upon-Avon, actor Derek Jacobi challenges the scholarly interpretation of Shakespeare. * At Florida's Cross Creek, friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings pay homage to her memory. * On Georgia's St. Simons Island, Eugenia Price shuns her label as a Christian novelist. * Behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner warns us about a pending but preventable apocalypse. * Southern novelist and journalist Harry Crews remembers his torturous but character-building childhood. * Tennessee Williams dodges the press. * Larry McMurtry describes the process of writing his epic Lonesome Dove. * John Mortimer testifies on behalf of Rumpole of the Bailey. * Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen, renounces religious fundamentalism. * Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, looks deep into his subconscious. * African poet Kofi Awoonor summons the ghosts of his ancestors. * Bel Kaufman leads a new generation Up the Down Staircase. * Evan Hunter, Richard Eberhart, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Andre Norton and others talk about the art and business of writing.

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