Warren Bower on Yukio Mishima

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Guest host and scholar Warren Bower recalls his interview with Yukio Mishima from September 16, 1965 and talks about Mishima's suicide in 1970. Bower also talks about the 1974 biography, The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima, by British journalist Henry Scott Stokes, and plays excerpts from his original radio interview with Mishima.


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