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The novelist and short story writer Edward Upward (1903-2009) is famous for being the unknown member of the W. H. Auden circle, though he was revered by his peers - Auden, Day Lewis, Isherwood, and Spender - for his intellect, high literary gifts, and unswerving political commitment. His lifelong friendship with Christopher Isherwood was forged at school and university, with each regarding the other as the first reader of his work. At Cambridge they invented the bizarre village of Mortmere, which with its combination of reality and fantasy had an important role in shaping the dominant British literary culture of the 1930s.

Best-selling author Mark Edwards joins Sophie Plateau in the Audible Studios to discuss his work.

H. G. Wells had a lifelong and powerful relationship with the United States. Beginning with his first visit in 1906 when Wells was already a world-famous science-fiction writer and futurist, he met personally with several American presidents and kept a close eye on scientific, technological, and social developments in the New World until his death in 1946 at age 80. In 1968, the German-born American historian Sylvia Strauss wrote her doctoral dissertation on H. G. Wells and America for her PhD at Rutgers University; she died in 1997 after a distinguished career.

The author of the Patrick Melrose novels presents a razor-sharp, fabulously entertaining satire that cuts to the quick of some of the deepest questions about the place of art in our celebrity-obsessed culture. In conversation with Francine Prose.

A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists.