Author Interviews

Watch and read the listed author interviews for your lit circle. At the end of the unit, you will produce a one page (typed) write-up about the author. In this write-up, you may answer the following questions:

1)      How would you describe the author’s personality? Does this surprise you or does it seem to connect with their writing style? How so?

2)      How does the author view his or her own writing process? What seems to inspire them to write? Do they have a final plan, or does it just come to them?

3)      Describe the origin of these actual novels. How did the authors begin to write this novel?

4)      What issues does the author seem to want to touch on in their novels?

5)      Write down two other interesting facts you discovered about the author or about their views on writing:

The Yellow Birds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzH1mxJNes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/books/kevin-powers-and-ben-fountain-national-book-award-nominees.html?pagewanted=all

The Road:
http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Oprahs-Exclusive-Interview-with-Cormac-McCarthy-Video

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html

Atonement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EtOy3sBBQ
(first 5 minutes)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ZEE9_iZRk

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9LZfX3Y8TI



Poisonwood Bible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcOLf0y46XM

http://www.librarything.com/topic/45781


http://www.kingsolver.com/faq/about-writing.html



Silver Linings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-0U7wiktc
-skip to 7:00 when he starts talking about the novel

Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsoVX4yxNBE




Yellow Raft:


http://billmoyers.com/content/louise-erdrich-and-michael-dorris-on-the-true-columbus/
(They talk about another book, but still watch the first 5 minutes)

 http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/michael-dorris-interview-transcript


http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/15/books/michael-dorris-dies-at-52-wrote-of-his-son-s-suffering.html


Thousand Splendid Suns:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcyxXU1Dow

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4kyalTT_wY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ez9GhYm080