Personal Accounts

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Kathy Gannon covered Afghanistan as an AP correspondent from 1986 to 2005. In I is for Infidel, she shares her account of the country’s history of occupation and war. Then, Nuala O'Faolain tells us about her biography of an infamous female con artist: The Story of Chicago May. Louise Erdrich shares her new novel, The Painted Drum. And Hilary Spurling looks at the life of Henri Matisse.

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