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First Published:
Jan 2005, 358 pages
Paperback:
Jan 2006, 384 pages
This article relates to The Memory of Running
Ron McLarty is an award-winning actor and
playwright. He came to New York thirty years ago to become a
writer. He was a regular on the series Spenser: For Hire and has appeared
more recently on The Practice, Law & Order, and Sex and the City. He has also appeared
in many films and on the stage, where he has directed many of
his own plays. He is currently working on a movie of The
Memory of Running. He lives in New York City with his actress
wife, Kate Skinner.
In answer to the question, 'How much
did your own life experience influence the creation of your
characters and drive the plot of The
Memory of Running? He replies:
"My parents
had a car accident while visiting me at a vacation spot in
Maine. I stayed at a motel between my mother's trauma center
and my father's neurological hospital. Between visits, I
wrote The Memory of Running as a
play. After their deaths, I expanded it into novel form. Like
in all of my work, I try to explain the world and its affect
on me. I have always felt that writing is a deeply personal
thing and not a road to wealth and happiness. In terms of my
characters, although I start from my own experience, I seem to
let my characters go from my control. They wrote their own
stories from their own points of view."
Read the
full interview.
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Memory of Running. It originally ran in February 2005 and has been updated for the
January 2006 paperback edition.
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