Terry Gross

Feig is the creator of the now-defunct TV comedy series Freaks and Geeks. He's just written a new book, Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence. Feig was an actor before moving on to writing for TV and film.

Lewis Gould is a professor of American history at the University of Texas at Austin and editor of Watching Television Come of Age. The book is a collection of reviews written by his father, Jack Gould, who covered television for The New York Times from 1947 until 1972. Jack Gould died in 1993.

Rodenburg's worked with some of the world’s leading English-speaking actors, including Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Maggie Smith and Nicole Kidman. Rodenburg is the director of voice at London’s National Theatre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She’s the author of the books Speaking Shakespeare (Palgrave Miacmillan) and The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer. This story first aired Sept. 9, 2002.

Woodall and Constantine are hosts of the BBC show What Not to Wear, which gives advice to women on how to dress for their body type. Their book, What Not To Wear, is available now in paperback (Riverhead Books). (There’s also an American version of the show also called What Not to Wear on the cable channel TLC). This story first aired Sept. 9, 2002.

Worden has compiled a book of photographs of the museum's collection of human oddities and outdated medical models. The Mutter Museum is in Philadelphia, Pa. It is one of the last medical museums from the 19th century. It originated with the collection of Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter, who gathered unique specimens for teaching purposes. The museum displays many human artifacts, such as a slice of a face, amputated limbs, deformed fetuses and a plaster cast of the conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker.

His recent book is Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck. The book is a collection of essays about the history of dice and the many ways to cheat at the game. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell accompany the text. The New York Times says of Jay, "He's a master's master." Jay's other books include Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. He's appeared in a number of David Mamet films and his one-man shows include "Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants" and "Ricky Jay: On the Stem." This story first aired Dec.

Price is the author of the bestselling novels Clockers, about life in the inner-city world of drug dealing (which was made into a film), and Freedomland, which was inspired by a real-life incident in which a woman alleged a black man carjacked her and took her two children. Price's latest book, Samaritan (Knopf), is about a man who returns to the New Jersey town where he was raised to teach, and the bad consequences of his good intentions. Price is also a screenwriter. His films include Sea of Love, Ransom and The Color of Money. This story first aired Jan. 7, 2003.

Russo won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls, which was also a national bestseller. His work focuses on the working class. One reviewer writes, he transforms "every day people and seemingly ordinary events into the quintessential." Russo has written a total of five novels, including Mohawk, The Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool, which was made into a film starring Paul Newman. His latest book is The Whore's Child and Other Stories." This story first aired Aug. 19, 2002.

Bannon (pseudonym) has written a number of lesbian pulp fiction books, including Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman and Journey to a Woman. Bannon went on to become a college dean, and has kept her identity a secret. This interview first aired Dec. 8, 1999.

Her new book is about her two-year affair with writer Patricia Highsmith. The two met in the 1950s at a Greenwich Village lesbian bar. Both were writing lesbian pulp fiction novels under pseudonyms. Meaker wrote Spring Fire (1952) under the pen name Vin Packer. It sold 1.5 million copies. She also wrote under the name Ann Aldrich. Meaker writes young adult novels under the name M.E. Kerr. Highsmith is known for her classic novels Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. This interview first aired June 19, 2003.