Interview: Lee Smith and Hal Crowther

Today's podcast features two writers: novelist and short story writer Lee Smith, and journalist and essayist Hal Crowther. Smith is author of more than a dozen works of fiction, including the recent nove On Agate Hill; she has won numerous awards for her work, including the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, a Lila Wallace / Reader's Digest Award, and the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction. Hal Crowther has written three books of nonfiction, and his work has appeared in a great number of newspapers, magazines, and journals, including the Oxford American, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Time, and Newsweek. His most recent book is Gather At The River: Notes From The Post-Millennial South. The two live in North Carolina.

Crowther and Smith read in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall on November 15, 2007. This interview took place earlier the same day.

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Interview: William Kennedy

William Kennedy was born and raised in Albany, New York, and later worked as a journalist there, giving him the background for his celebrated works about that city and its history. He has published eight novels and several works of nonfiction and drama; he's also a screenwriter, and the recipient of both a MacArthur grant and a Pulitzer Prize. His books include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983), and Roscoe (2002).

Kennedy read in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall on November 1, 2007. This interview took place earlier the same day.

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