Katherine Anne Porter

Carl Sandberg

Ernest Hemingway

Authors Interviewed and Photographed: Slide talk by E.T.A. Davision

Meetings with Remarkable Writers

by E. T. A. Davidson and Loren K. Davidson

Authors' Names:

W. H. Auden (1907-1973), poet. "Musée de Beaux Art," "In Memory of W. B. Yeats."

James Baldwin (1924-1987), novelist. Go Tell it On the Mountain (1953), Another Country (1962), The Fire Next Time (1963).

Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973), biographer. Yankee from Olympus (1945), John Adams and the American Revolution (1950), The Lion and the Throne (1957).

Pearl Buck (1892-1973), novelist. The Good Earth. (Nobel Prize winner).

John Cheever (1912-1982), novelist, short story writer. Interviewed him but did not photograph him, as he was in the hospital.

John Ciardi (1916-1986), poet and translator of Dante.

Eleanor Clark.(1913-1995 (?)), general writer. Rome and a Villa.

Richard Eberhart (1904-), poet. Librarian of Congress (poet laureate). National Book Award.

Burl Ives (1909-1995) folk singer, folk song collector, and actor.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), The Sun Also Rises. A Farewell to Arms. For Whom the Bell Tolls. (Nobel Prize winner).

John Hersey (1914-1993), novelist. Hiroshima. The Wall. The Child Buyer. A Bell for Adano. Pulitzer Prize

Carson McCullers (1917-1967), novelist and playwright. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Norman Mailer (1923-  ), novelist and general writer. The Naked and the Dead, Advertisements for Myself ("The White Negro" and "The Man Who Studied Yoga").

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), novelist and short story writer. The Ship of Fools.

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974), poet.

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), poet.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), poet, biographer. The People, Yes , a six-volume biography of Lincoln.

May Sarton (1912-1995), poet and novelist. Faithful are the Wounds.

Budd Schulberg (1914-), What Makes Sammy Run? and The Disenchanted. On the Waterfront

Anne Sexton (1928-1975), poet.

Karl Shapiro (1913-1982), poet

Stephen Spender (1909-1994) Poet (“I think continually of those who were truly great”), essayist, and memorist World Within World.

,Jean Stafford (1915-1979), novelist and general writer. Boston Adventure. The Mountain Lion. Biography of the other of Lee Harvey Oswald. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (1969).

William Styron (1925- ), Lie Down in Darkness. Sophie's Choice. Confessions of Nat Turner. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.

May Swenson (1913-1989), poet.

James Thurber (1894-1961), humorist and New Yorker cartoonist. The Thurber Album.

Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), novelist and literary critic. The Middle of the Journey, The Liberal Imagination.

Mark Van Doren (1894-1972), poet, critic, teacher.

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), novelist, poet, and New Critic. All the King's Men. Understanding Poetry (with Cleanth Brooks).

Rene Wellek (1903-1995), literary critic Theory of Literature.

Perry D. Westbrook (1916-1998),mystery stories, scholar of American literature.

Glenway Wescott (1901-1987), novelist and short story writer. "Pilgrim Hawk." Apartment in Athens.

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), novelist and playwright. The Bridge of San Luis Rey and The Skin of our Teeth.

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), poet and short story writer. Patterson.

Geoffrey Wolfe (1937-), novelist. Providence. And a book about his father, The Duke of Deception  (1979).

Ira Wolfert (1908-1997),  Novelist, war correspondent and screenwriter whose reporting from World War II.

     Did filmography and wrote novels. Tucker's People (as a movie, Force of Evil) (1948), An Act of Love, American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950), novel.

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The list contains 2 Nobel Prize winners (Hemingway and Buck).

Of Pulitzer Prize, 7 won for Poetry (Warren [2x], Sarton, Eberhart, Williams, Sandburg, Auden, Shapiro; 11 for the Novel (Wilder, Buck, Hersey, Warren, Hemingway, Faulkner [2x], Porter, Styron, Stafford, Cheever, and Mailer; and 1 for Drama (Wilder [ 2x]).

Of the National Book Award, 5 won for poetry (Warren, Ransom, Eberhart, and Auden); 5 for fiction (Cheever, Porter, Wilder, and Styron; and 3 for nonfiction (Bowen, Clark, and Mailer).

A number of them were in the Academy of American Poets and in other prestigious organizations.