“A beautiful memoir of a life-long obsession, a peek behind the curtains at the biographer’s art, and, not least, a rich and vivid portrait of Camus himself.”
—Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine

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Elizabeth Hawes on The Diane Rehm Show

Elizabeth Hawes describes her forty-year affair of the heart and mind with the Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus.

— Monday July 27, 2009

Elizabeth Hawes on The Leonard Lopate Show

The Weekly Standard's Christopher Caldwell explains the impact he thinks Islamic immigration is having on Europe. Then, Elizabeth Hawes on her biography-memoir of Camus. And Katherine Russell Rich describes how learning Hindi as an adult changed her life. Plus, our latest Under reported segments look at Iceland's road to economic recovery and at Iraq’s underground railroad for abused women.

— Thursday, July 30, 2009