E-mail a friendJune 28, 2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough says the U.S. is a work in progress. Writer Joyce Carol Oates wants her work to stand on its own, without gender.
David McCullough
David McCullough
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough is one of the nation's most popular historians. A "master of the art of narrative history," he's written numerous bestselling books - none of which has ever been out of print - including The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, John Adams and, his most recent, 1776. He's also narrated documentaries including PBS's The Civil War. Although he once considered becoming an artist, McCullough was inspired to write by his advisor at Yale, playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most distinguished authors. The New York native began writing at age 14 and, with almost a hundred books published, continues to turn out two or three a year, in almost all genres. Oates is a humanities professor at Princeton University and, with her husband, publishes the Ontario Review. At this year's L.A. Film Festival, she's one of the 'Poolside Chat' panelists discussing Knockout Films: The Art of Boxing Movie.