Writers
Interview with Andrew Lawler, Author of "A Mystery Fit for a Pharaoh"
Andrew Lawler discusses imperialism and the natural romance of studying ancient cultures.
Interview with John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin
The authors of "Building an Arc" talk about wildlife conservation and what drew them to work with tigers.
Interview with Adam Goodheart, Author of "Back to the Future"
The author talks about what makes the newly renovated Patent Office Building special
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An Interview with Author David Karp, Fruit Detective
The author of "Berried Treasure" discusses fruit mysteries and pith helmet style
Q&A with Laura Tangley
An interview with Laura Tangley, author of "Learning from Tai Shan" in the June 2006 issue of SMITHSONIAN.
Interview: David Roberts, Author of "Below the Rim"
Author David Roberts talks about what he found surprising while exploring the Grand Canyon.
Interview on the Legacy of Andrew Wyeth
Henry Adams, author of "Wyeth's World," speaks with the artist about his early work, influences and technique
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Bilingual By Breakfast
Only one thing stood between the author and the hojaldras of her desire
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35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Angelou
By singing of her own hardships, she has given strength to others
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35 Who Made a Difference: Wendell Berry
A Kentucky poet draws inspiration from the land that sustains him
Tocqueville's America
The French author's piquant observations on American gumption and political hypocrisy sound remarkably contemporary 200 years after his birth
The Power and the Glory
She bought the electric drill to get a tidier household. Then she found out about the secret sisterhood
Lucky Man
A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace
Prescient and Accounted For
A century after his death, novelist Jules Verne, who imagined Moon flight and deep-sea voyages, looks more prophetic than ever
Trouble Spots
Two of our writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan
James Boswell's Scotland
The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
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Supremely Wilde
How an 1882 portrait of the flamboyant man of letters reached the highest court in the land and changed U.S. law forever
Paper Chase
Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings
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Rich in Talent
Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some
Matter of the Heart
Graham Greene's letters to his paramour, Catherine Walston, trace the hazy line between life and fiction
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