Observations of American Writers, 1972

Loose-leaf pocketed portfolio created to commemorate International Book Year, includes a brief 2-3 page statement plus a photograph of each of the following writers:

Martin A. Bacheller, Moving Boundaries

Ray Bradbury, On a Burning Book

B.J. Chute, Street Signs are for Reading

Richard Condon, A Book with Glued Pages

Nathan C. Heard, Prison and Reading

Rona Jaffe, Writers and Writing

Meyer Levin, Criticizing the Critics

Vance Packard, From Shelver to Author

Bentz Plagemann, A Return to the Story Peter Prescott, What "Lorna Doone" Means to Me

James Purdy, Writing from Inner-Compulsion

Irving Wallace, But Love is Not a Crime

A.B.C. Wipple, You Learn a Little Something Everyday

John A. Williams, A Mother's Conviction

Purdy's piece is inscribed "Death to New York! James Purdy"