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Fifty Years of 'The Cat in the Hat'

The Cat in the Hat, the book about a mischievous, irrepressible soul who always seemed kind of ageless, is 50 years old. At the time of its debut in 1957, the Cat was an instant success. The Dr. Seuss classic is still captivating to children and the adults who read to them.

A Mother's Abandonment and a Life in Art, Nature

The Day My Mother Left tells the story of a young boy whose mother leaves him — and how that experience stokes his love of art and nature. Author and artist James Prosek discusses the work, which is fiction but largely autobiographical.

ABC's Bob Woodruff Writes of Iraq Injury Recovery

ABC news correspondent and former anchor Bob Woodruff was nearly killed by a roadside bomb on Jan. 29, 2006, in Iraq. He suffered a severe brain injury and was in a coma for more than a month. He and his wife, Lee, have written a new memoir about his recovery.

Lorraine Gordon, Keeper of a Shrine to Jazz

Lorraine Gordon is the keeper of New York's historic Village Vanguard. Recently, Gordon published a set of memoirs, the recollections of a woman who was married to two famous men of jazz.

Calvin Johnson rides on a MARTA train, Atlanta's rail system. He began working for MARTA in August 1999, just four months after his release from prison. He was the 61st person in the United States to be exonerated by DNA testing.

Exonerated Prisoners Adjust to Life on the Outside

After 22 years in prison, Willie "Pete" Williams was recently exonerated by DNA evidence. As he adjusts to his newfound freedom, he's taking advice from Calvin Johnson, the first man in Georgia to be exonerated by DNA evidence.

Sri Lanka Fighting Traps Thousands in Jaffna

Thousands of people trying to leave Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula are trapped by ethnic conflict. The peninsula is held by the Sri Lankan government. The territory just to the south is in the hands of Tamil Tiger rebels.

Writer Ken Foster, Dogging It

Ken Foster's memoir The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind is about to come out in paperback. He also contributed to and edited the collection Dog Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines. (This interview was first broadcast April 6, 2006.)

Ben Yagoda is a journalism professor at the University of Delaware. He writes often about literary style.

Write On: Yagoda's 'Catch an Adjective'

Ben Yagoda is the author of When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It. It's a guide to writing that capitalizes on the lively advice of writers from Mark Twain (author of the title quote) to Stephen King.

S.V. Date covered Jeb Bush's eight years as Florida governor.

Journalist S.V. Date, Tracking Jeb Bush

S.V. Date writes for Florida's Palm Beach Post. He closely followed Gov. Jeb Bush during his eight years in the state house in Tallahassee. Date's new book is Jeb: America's Next Bush.

Hisham Matar, photographed in October 2006 while awaiting the selection of Britain's Mann Booker Prize for fiction. He was on the short list.

'Country of Men' Novelist Hisham Matar

Hisham Nitar's semi-autobiographical debut novel In the Country of Men was short-listed for the 2006 Mann Booker Prize. Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli, Libya, and later in Cairo, Egypt. He has lived in Great Britain since 1986. Matar's father, a critic of the Libyan regime, was arrested in 1990. Matar has been unable to find out what happened to him.

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