The Authors Road is a

project of Willamette Writers

"Easy reading is damned hard writing." Nathaniel Hawthorne

We hope you enjoy the wit and insights of these writers, and are perhaps inspired to take up pen or keyboard and share in humankind’s most personal and enduring art – storytelling.

Ella the interviewing dog - Authors Road
Ella at her first interview.
She was a goooooood girl!
Tom Robbins, George Mason, author interview
George interviewing Tom Robbins

We know writers by their work, their impact, or their awards and reputations – but we know little about why writers write, how they write, and what they see as the future of this art.

The Authors Road explores these topics and the art of writing in a series of interviews with working and respected writers and others involved in the world of letters. We hope to learn what inspired them, how they do it, and how technology has changed the craft.

And we are doing this to honor one of America’s greatest natural resources — its writers.

INTERVIEWS

Philip Caputo
R.C. Matheson

Jim Fergus

Diana Gabaldon

Larry Engelmann

Mark Twain

Laurie R. King

Carola Dunn

Lawson Inada
John Steinbeck
Jack London
Karen Cushman
Tom Robbins
Robert Dugoni
Dennis Stovall
Paulann Petersen
Cynthia Whitcomb
Verlena Orr


Salli, George & Ella in the doorway of Hardscribble House

We are doing this because we are avid readers and writers, love to travel, and are curious about the dynamic changes in today’s writing and publishing scene . . . .

The Authors Road is a journey of discovery. We are writers, artists, parents, travelers and documentarians, and along with our dog, Ella, a truck named “Rocinante Tres” (after Don Quixote’s horse and John Steinbeck’s camper-truck), and an RV named “Hardscribble House II” (after the home of an old friend, writer Hugh Mulligan), we are on the road.

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New posting 4/16/12

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