Interviews: 1912 – 1960

A Child’s Interview With Charles Dickens
(The Literary Digest, 1912)

Kate Douglas Wiggins recalled her childhood train ride in the 1840’s in which she was able to have a chat with one of her favorite author, Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), as he traveled the United States on a reading tour.

‘Of course, I do skip some of the very dull parts once and a while; not the short dull parts but the long ones.’ He laughed heartily. ‘Now that is something that I hear very little about’ he said’.

Conversations With Pirandello
(Theatre Arts, 1928)

The back-and-forth that took place throughout a number of Florentine conversations between journalist Fredericka V. Blankner and Italian writer and drama theorist Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936: awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934) were printed in her 1928 article, Pirandello, Paradox:

I see life, says Pirandello, as a tragedy…

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