Journalist 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 letter and research on the Vietnam War and those of John Paul Vann are housed in this building. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Truman biographer Historian 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 FDR had died and ran from a meeting on the House side of the Capitol to this office. That night Truman was sworn in as a the 33rd President of the United States. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Historian David McCullough pointing in the direction of the Vice President's office. A person is sitting in the background and looking in the direction of the camera.
Journalist David Halberstam at Eli Zabar's coffee shop on Maidson Avenue in Manhattan. The author said on Booknotes that he likes to have "a very lazy cappuccino" before he starts his writing for the day. Photo credit: Brian Lamb
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Booknotes set. During the program, he described how he signed 60,001 copies of "My American Journey" on his book tour. Photo credit: Susan Kennedy.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell used a Sharpie pen to autograph his books, "principally because it gives you a nice bold signature and it's round and soft with no edges, so it didn't give me any calluses." Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Political commentator George Will at work on his laptop in his Georgetown office. Mr. Will finally started using a computer to write his books and columns instead of his favorite Pelikan pen after he fell on the ice and broke his arm in February 1995. Photo credit: Brian Lamb
Eighty-year-old writer Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. In the upper right corner is a portrait of Marcel Proust. While Brian Lamb was taking this photo, Mr. Foote told him he has read all of Proust's works nine times. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Author Shelby Foote's writing table. Mr. Foote wrote 1.5 million words on the Civil War with this dip pen. He described on C-SPAN how he has trouble today finding steel-tip replacements for the pen and often has to bargain with the few stationery stores that still sell them. On the table are a Quimper cup and saucer, a photo of musician Robert Johnson, Vermeer's "person with Pearl Earring," and Mr. Foote's dip pen. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Author Shelby Foote is reviewing 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 has now returned to writing novels. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Essayist and critic Albert Murray in his Harlem apartment with his yellow legal pads and the music cassettes he listens to as he writes. It is here that Mr. Murray has written nine books since 1962. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Historian William Chafe wrote his biography of the late congressperson Al Lowenstein (D-NY) overlooking Harmon's Harbor in Georgetown, Maine. Photo credit: Gary Bonaccorso.
Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan is pointing at a mass card that once belonged to playwright Tennessee Wiliams. For inspiration, she keeps it taped to the side of her computer in her brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Writer and critic 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. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Writer Christopher Hitchens working in his preferred location at the Timberlakes bar near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. When the jukebox is playing, Mr. Hitchens says his concentration improves. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Author and former school principal Madeline Cartwright takes a break from her computer to play with her grandson Jared, aged seven, and a family friend, Destini, aged eighteen months. On the program, Ms. Cartwright described how she wrote her book on this bed in her home in Philadelphia. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Journalist Johanna Neuman with her cat, Smokey, in her lap, working out of 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. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
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. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
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." Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
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." Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
Brian Lamb's aunt Eileen O'Gara and friends Mem Constidine and Bobbsie Ross of the northern Chicago suburbs meeting General Norman Schwarzkoof at C-SPAN after Booknotes taping.
Brian Lamb's aunt Eileen O'Gara and friends Mem Constidine and Bobbsie Ross of the northern Chicago suburbs meeting General Norman Schwarzkoof at C-SPAN after Booknotes taping.
A person leaning on a sign outside that says, "OLD TOMB; This was the Washington Family Burial Vault until 1831; Facade Restored in 1939 to accord with Early views."
