At the Public Library AssociationSpring Symposium in Chicago, March 2, 2001 Libraries have always been an important part of my life. My memory is vivid with wonderful images of walking through lines of pushcarts in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn to the lovely children’s library on Stone Avenue where I spent hours and hours searching […]
Speech Delivered by Warren Adler at the NIST Convention in Washington D.C., September, 2000 A paper delivered by author Warren Adler, September 27th, 2000 at the Third Annual Electronic Book Conference and Show, Ronald Reagan Building, International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. In nearly three decades I have published twenty five fictional works, including twenty three […]
At Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference, 1999 This is the eighth time I’ve been called upon to greet a group of fellow writers who gather here in our little valley, bringing with them their eager aspirations and optimism and, of course, the hope that they will find their voice and hone their creative writing skills. I […]
At Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference, July 3rd, 1997 This is the sixth time I have delivered the welcoming address at the Jackson Hole Writer’s conference. It is always a pleasure to welcome you to our lovely valley and to offer, with great sincerity, my hope that your participation will be invigorating, stimulating and creatively profitable. […]
by Warren Adler Originally published in Humanistic Judaism Volume XIX, No. III, Summer 1991; reprinted in Volume XXXIV, No. II, Spring 2006. My parents moved to Florida in 1971, Considering their origins in the ghettos of Europe at the turn of the century, it seemed an ironic ending to a life of struggle and incessant […]
If necessity is the mother of invention then Fiona FitzGerald, whose third incarnation is now appearing in Immaculate Deception, must be the granddaughter of necessity. She was created out of the compulsive need to “create” which surely afflicts all novelists. Add to that need the fear of time’s relentlessness and you have the perfect prescription […]
From New York Times, April 1, 1991 by Aljean Harmetz Hollywood can have Warren Adler’s work at a price. His price. Los Angeles – March 31 – At age 62, many writers, directors and actors are begging for work. But Warren Adler is being courted by Hollywood. “Actually, I’ve always thought of myself as a […]