Over the years we have recorded interviews with over 40 prominent writers about their careers and about their working lives and practices. Completed interviews are available for viewing in the Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library.

Interviews available in the library include:

Charles Bennett, Irving Brecher, David Dortort, Julius J. Epstein, Bo Goldman, Fay Kanin, Millard Kaufman, Hal Kanter, Christopher Knopf, Norman Lear, Ernest Lehman, William Link, David Lloyd, Del Reisman, Alvin Sargent, Sherwood Schwartz, Mel Shavelson, Sidney Sheldon, Leonard Stern, Dan Taradash, Billy Wilder

Stockpiled interviews (yet to be edited) include:

Edward Anhalt, Robert Blees, James L. Brooks, Jean Rouverol Butler, Bob Carroll & Madelyn Pugh Davis, Devery Freeman, John Gay, Everett Greenbaum, William Ludwig, Loring Mandel, John Mantley, John McGreevey, Frank Pierson, Abe Polonsky, Carl Reiner, Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf, David Swift, Robert Towne

Stockpiled interviews will be edited as funds become available.

This project needs funds! Each interview costs about $1,500 to tape and edit – and with overhead it’s more. For a donation of $2,500 you can have your name on the back-end credits of a finished DVD: “This interview was made possible through the generosity of…..” plus all the usual perks and acknowledgements offered to Foundation donors. Just let us know that you would like your donation to be applied to the Writer Speaks program.

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