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Lawrence Grobel (www.lawrencegrobel.com ) is a novelist, journalist, biographer, poet & teacher. Five of his 22 books were listed in Publisher’s Weekly’s ＂Best Books of the Year.＂ He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for his fiction and a PEN Special Achievement Award. Writer’s Digest called him ＂A legend among journalists.＂ Joyce Carol Oates called him the ＂Mozart of interviewers.＂ His The Art of the Interview is often used as a textbook for journalism classes. He served in the Peace Corps, directed a graduate writing program for Antioch, and taught at UCLA. He has appeared on CNN, The Today Show, GMA, The Charlie Rose Show and in two documentaries, Salinger & Al Pacino’s Wilde Salome. He is married to the artist Hiromi Oda and they have two daughters. His books are all available at Amazon.com.