Trumbo is the story of screen writer Dalton Trumbo’s harrowing descent from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy-Award winner. Focusing on Trumbo’s own words, the film, directed by Peter Askin, is adapted from his son Christopher Trumbo’s 2003 play.

Rafael Pi Roman spoke with the writer and performance artist at her home in Crown Heights about her life and her work.

The Morgan Library & Museum showcases the highly important bound collection of Oscar Wilde’s letters and manuscripts, the whereabouts of which has been unknown to scholars for over half a century.

Rafael Pi Roman spoke with with the recently deceased author of Angela’s Ashes back in 2006.

The emergence of Hemingway’s literary voice and the critical success of The Sun Also Rises is just one act of the author’s life explored in AMERICAN MASTERS Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea.

The triumphant author of such innovative works as The Iceman Cometh , A Touch of the Poet and the autobiographical masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night , O’Neill once described writing as his “vacation from living.”

Chast published her first cartoon on the pages of the New Yorker when she was 23 and since then more than 1,000 cartoons have appeared in the magazine.

Philip Roth has won all of the glittering literary prizes, from the Pulitzer to the National Book Award.