The question

Which writers or artists have most influenced your work?

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The Paris Review, to novelists and poets, The Art of Fiction

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.

Historian and biographer of American presidents

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
When I was in high school, there was a book by James MacGregor Burns, a wonderful historian, called The Lion and the Fox, about FDR. And it was about his personality, his character, his early years in Hyde Park, his polio experience and… I remember that so vividly as the first real, live history book that I love so much. And I later met him, and have gotten to know him as a colleague, and he’s about 30 years older than I am, and I couldn’t wait to tell him, “You were the one who made it happen.

Academy of Achievement interview, Sun Valley, Idaho, 28 June 1996 source ↗

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Gertrude B. Elion Biochemist and pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
It was a very important finding for us because we were involved in nucleic acids. There weren’t many people interested in nucleic acids. There weren’t many people who believed that was the way to find drugs. But when we found out the structure, and we began to understand what kind of bases could be incorporated, and which ones couldn’t, and where they could be incorporated, it put a whole new dimension on it. So it had a very significant effect.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, San Francisco, California, 6 March 1991 source ↗
Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer of musical theatre
Well, I mean, obviously, as I said, Richard Rodgers, very obviously say, composers like Prokofiev, like Gershwin, all of these, the great musical theater writers. I would add, as melodists, I think if you were talking about the great melodists of the 20th century, I would put Paul McCartney in there. I would definitely put Rodgers. I would definitely put Prokofiev. I’d definitely put Gershwin because he died so young, but definitely would put him there. And those, of course, in the theater side of things, I’d definitely put Hal Prince
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York City, 13 September 2019 source ↗
Wayne Thiebaud Painter; winner of the National Medal of Arts
Very much, because he’s interested in that same kind of process. Bonnard, Matisse, Indian miniature paintings, which he collected. That’s where the light comes from, a spectral relationship within the painting itself.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Sacramento, California, 27 May 2011 source ↗
Marco Brambilla Video artist and film director
Yeah, of course! I think they made that way back in like 1968 with an optical printer where they had to keep shooting each section. It was made for IBM. The idea of virtual travel versus physical travel, the idea of exploration.
Recorded The Talks, published interview, 28 January 2015 source ↗

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