Here are the profiles that a quick prod round the archives found, not really in chronological order.<\/p>\n\n
Eva Hoffman<\/a> They really were interesting people to talk to, and to read. There were three or four people who never talked to me, and whom I really wanted to do — Sybille Bedford booked a restaurant then changed her mind; Richard Lewontin and Bernard Lewis considered letters for months and then declined my offer. Larry McMurtry waited until I had booked (and the Guardian had paid for) a flight to Texas before deciding he had better things to do.<\/p>\n\n Benny Morris, whom I liked and admired, was never published. Too much politics. A couple of other ones fell by the wayside for other reasons.<\/p>\n\n What’s sad is that these were proper interviews, for which I would prepare by reading, and thinking about, everything I could get my hands on of the authors, and not just whatever their publishers wanted plugged that month. I would talk to friends from their childhoods. I tried to avoid quote mines and even clippings, and to get the quotes freshly. I’m really delighted to have been able to do all that work. The photographs that Eamonn McCabe did were fantastic, too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are the profiles that a quick prod round the archives found, not really in chronological order. Eva Hoffman Mary Midgley Stewart Brand Tam Dalyell Brian Aldiss Steve Rose Evelyn Fox Keller Bob Conquest Elizabeth Jane Howard Redmond O’Hanlon John … Continue reading
\nMary Midgley<\/a>
\nStewart Brand<\/a>
\nTam Dalyell<\/a>
\nBrian Aldiss<\/a>
\nSteve Rose<\/a>
\nEvelyn Fox Keller<\/a>
\nBob Conquest<\/a>
\nElizabeth Jane Howard<\/a>
\nRedmond O’H<\/span>anlon<\/a>
\nJohn Sulston<\/a>
\nRobert Silvers<\/a>
\nDan Dennett<\/a>
\nMary Warnock<\/a>
\nRoy Foster<\/a>
\nOliver Sacks<\/a>
\nJohn Brockman<\/a>
\nRobert Trivers<\/a><\/p>\n\n