On Authors: Interviews with literary giants, 1995-2012

by Robert McCrum

In nearly twenty years, Robert McCrum has interviewed literature’s most influential subjects. His intimate conversations, peppered with humour, have shed new light on great authors, uncovered secrets, explored where their books have come from and how their oeuvre fits their lives.In On Authors, McCrum reflects on the experience of interviewing these literary giants and collects together the very best Observer interviews. Unique and brilliant in their own right, gathered together they are an absorbing tour through the world of books.The collected interviews Gore Vidal; Margaret Atwood; Norman Mailer; Lorrie Moore; Don DeLillo; Philip Roth; Lynne Truss; V.S. Naipaul; Sarah Waters; and Seamus Heaney.On Authors is the companion volume to Robert McCrum On Writing and On Reading.

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2012

About the author

Robert McCrum is an associate editor of the Observer. He was born and educated in Cambridge. For nearly 20 years he was editor-in-chief of the publishers Faber & Faber. He is the co-author of The Story of English (1986), and has written six novels. He was the literary editor of the Observer from 1996 to 2008, and has been a regular contributor to the Guardian since 1990