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Conversations with American Writers | Dale Brown

Long-time English pro­fessor Dale Brown collects interviews he conducted with nine writers whose novels spring from or reflect their faith or struggles with faith. Probably the most well-known to Christian readers is Jan Karon, author of the Mitford books. In a wide-ranging interview she discusses her calling to be a writer and how hard it was at first. "It was so bad; it was so bad. I had failed. I did not know how to write a book. Mr. Churchill's line came to me then and has been very important, very core. Just 'never, never, never give up.' Period." The interviews explore the writing process and whether, as Shelby Foote asserted in a letter to Walker Percy, "art is by definition a product of doubt."

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