Illuminating
the ways the experience of reading can inform -- and even
transform -- the act of writing is one of the primary
goals of every outreach program sponsored by the National
Book Foundation.
Below is a list of some of our nation's most distinguished
writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's
literature. Click on a name to see what they have to say
about the books that changed their lives.
Photos: (from l to r) Lloyd
Alexander, Andrea Barrett, Jacques Barzun,Hayden Carruth,
Ron Chernow, Andres Dubus III, Nikki Giovanni, Ivan
Doig, Stephen King, Kimberly Willis Holt, Joyce Carol
Oates, Geral Stern, Charles Wright.
Illuminating
the ways the experience of reading can inform -- and even
transform -- the act of writing is one of the primary
goals of every outreach program sponsored by the National
Book Foundation.