Booknotes

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• Charles Kuralt.

  Charles Kuralt on a patio outside his writing office in New York City.
• Charles Kuralt.

  Former CBS reporter Charles Kuralt in his writing office located on West 57th Street in New York. Mr. Kuralt said he wanted to re-create "the feel of a seedy, failing, small gentleman's club."
• Lynn Sherr.

  Lynn Sherr, ABC 20/20 correspondent and Susan B. Anthony biographer, in New York City, reviewing microfilm of the Anthony papers that she purchased for her book research.
• Johanna Neuman.

  Journalist Johanna Neuman with her cat, Smokey, in her lap, working in her Bethesda, Maryland home. Her husband, the former press secretary to President Gerald Ford, is in the photograph behind her, holding a press conference in 1975.
• Madeline Cartwright.

  Author and former school principal Madeline Cartwright takes a break from her computer to play with her grandson Jared, age 7, and a family friend, Destini, 18 months. On "Booknotes", Ms. Cartwright described how she wrote her book on this bed in her home in Philadelphia.
• Christopher Hitchens.

  Writer Christopher Hitchens working in his preferred location at Timberlakes bar near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. When the jukebox was playing, Mr. Hitchens said, his concentration improved.
• Stanley Crouch.

  Stanley Crouch writes in his apartment on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village. An avid jazz lover, Mr. Crouch surrounds himself when he works with the music and photos of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong.
• Peggy Noonan and her son, Eric.

  Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan in her Manhattan home office, with her son Eric, aged 9.
• Peggy Noonan.

  Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan is pointing at a Mass card that once belonged to playwright Tennessee Williams. For inspiration, she keeps it taped to the side of her computer monitor in her brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
• John Hockenberry.

  Author and MSNBC host John Hockenberry writes in his loft on 23rd Street in Manhattan.
• William Chafe.

  William Chafe wrote his biography of the late congressman Al Lowenstein (D-NY) overlooking Harmon's Harbor in Georgetown, Maine.
• View from Albert Murray's window.

  The view of New York City's Harlem neighborhood from Albert Murray's window.
• Albert Murray.

  Albert Murray in his Harlem apartment with his yellow legal pads and the music cassettes he listened to as he wrote. It was here that Mr. Murray wrote nine books starting in 1962.
• Shelby Foote holding a handwritten, bound manuscript.

  Shelby Foote holds one of the many handwritten bound manuscripts for his three-volume series on the Civil War. Mr. Foote started working on the trilogy in 1954 and continued to research and write the volumes for the next twenty years. He then returned to writing novels.
• Shelby Foote's writing table.

  Foote wrote 1.5 million words on the Civil War with this dip pen. He described on C-SPAN how he had trouble finding steel-tip replacments for the pen and often had to bargain with the few stationery stores that still sold them.
• Shelby Foote.

  Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home.
• Shelby Foote.

  Eighty-year-old Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. In the upper right corner of first two photos is a portrait of Marcel Proust. "While I was taking this photo," wrote Brian Lamb, "Mr. Foote told me he has read all of Proust's works nine times."
• George Will.

  George Will at work on his laptop in his Georgetown office.
• Colin Powell.

  Colin Powell signing a book for a C-SPAN staff member on the "Booknotes" set.
• David Halberstam.

  David Halberstam on the landing of a set of stairs at the New York Society Library in Manhattan.
• David Halberstam.

  David Halberstam at Eli Zabar's coffee shop on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The author said on "Booknotes" that he liked to have "a very lazy cappuccino" before he started writing for the day.
• Bill McCullough and David McCullough.

  Author David McCullough (right) with his son Bill in the Hall of Columns on the House side of the U.S. Capitol.
• David McCullogh.

  Truman biographer David McCullough in front of the vice president's office at the U.S. Senate. Mr. McCullough retraced Harry Truman's steps when, as vice president, he was alerted that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died and ran from a meeting on the House side of the Capitol to this office. That night Truman was sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States.
• Neil Sheehan.

  Neil Sheehan with boxes of archival records at the Library of Congress.
• Neil Sheehan.

  Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, in front of the Library of Congress. All of Mr. Sheehan's letters and research on the Vietnam War and those of John Paul Vann are housed in the Library of Congress. Brian Lamb recorded five interviews with Mr. Sheehan regarding the book in the fall of 1988; those interviews and a succeeding call-in gave Brian Lamb the idea for the Booknotes series.