Books by Thomas Fensch

Gathers interviews with Thurber from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments.

Gathers interviews with Steinbeck from each period in his career and offers a brief profile on his life and accomplishments.

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

Writings examine how Geisel revolutionalized reading, and look at his characters, themes, lifestyle, and writing habits.

Thirty years before Thomas Keneally wrote the book Schindler's List, journalist Herbert Steinhouse interviewed Oskar Schindler. That 1949 account, plus a recent interview with Steinhouse, opens this collection of essays, articles, and interviews, which illuminate Schindler and the international effect of his story. Of the recent writing about Oskar Schindler, this is the only book to incorporate Schindler's life, Keneally's book, and the Academy Award-winning film inspired by Schindler's heroism. Thomas Fensch pieces together articles and interviews to show how Keneally came to write Schindler's List; how Steven Spielberg brought this extraordinary story to life on film; and how uncovering Schindler's valiant rescue of so many Jewish lives has dramatically altered Holocaust awareness in our time.

Poems, fiction, satire, and articles depict the experience of skydiving and the reasons so many are drawn to the sport.

An exploration of the complex relationship between a major American novelist and his editor draws upon the extensive correspondence between Steinbeck and Pascal Covici, the man who salvaged Steinbeck's floundering career.

Adopting the structure and themes of Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck creates a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peoples it with a colorful band of knights. As he chronicles the thoughts and emotions, temptations and lusts of the "knights", Steinbeck spins a tale as compelling as the famous legends of the Round Table.