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Michael Mewshaw is an American author and works frequently as a travel writer, investigative reporter, book reviewer, and tennis reporter. His novel Year of the Gun was made into a film of the same name by John Frankenheimer in 1991. He is married with two sons.
His works in fiction include Man in Motion (1970), The Toll (1974), Earthly Bread (1976), Blackballed (1986), True Crime (1991), Island Tempest (2005) and Lying with the Dead (2009). His non-fiction works include Short Circuit: Six Months on the Men's Professional Tennis Tour (1983), Money to Burn (1987), Ladies of the Court: Grace And Disgrace On The Women's Tennis Tour (1993), If You Could See Me Now: A Chronicle of Identity and Adoption (2006), Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Trip Across North Africa (2010) and Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal (2014).
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An Interview with Michael Mewshaw
Why did you choose Central Asia as the setting for Shelter from
the Storm?
I traveled to Central Asia and finished Shelter from the
Storm long before the events of September 11 and the attention that they
focused on that part of the world. The area interested me as a setting for a
variety of reasons. It's a dramatic landscape of mountains, desert, and rolling
steppes. Its architecture, especially what remains of its sixteenth century
splendor, is some of the most impressive I've ever seen. But it was the human
situation that fascinated me most, the collision of cultures, religions,
nations, and tribes. What would it be like, I wondered, to live where every
belief system had failed, where the local currency was worthless, the police and
army offered no protection, and there was no chance of escape? In short, what
was it like to be human in inhuman circumstances?
What interests you about the figure of the wolf-boy? Why did you
decide to make him a central character in the story?
More than twenty years ago I reviewed a book about the wolf
children of Midnapore, India. The subject interested me. No, I should say it
obsessed me, and I started reading the scientific ...
Dan Fesperman grew up in North Carolina and has reported for the Fayetteville, Durham Morning Herald, Charlotte News, Miami Herald and The Baltimore Sun, and worked in its Berlin bureau during the years of civil war in the ... (more)
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