(b. 1933– )
U.S. author, narrator, historian, and lecturer
David McCullough
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. He said, in his great admonition to writers, “Make me see.” I try to make you see what’s happening and smell it and hear it. I want to know what they had for dinner. I want to know how long it took to walk from where to where.
Interview with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole, ca. 2002