# Literary Lives: National Book Festival 2020

Mark Doty, "What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life" (Norton), appears in conversation with Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir" (Tin House). Effortlessly blending biography, criticism and memoir, National Book Award-winning poet and bestselling memoirist Doty explores his personal quest for Walt Whitman, while Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie. Moderated by Crosby Kemper, executive director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2020
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697132/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024697132?play=1)