Watch Writing and the Immigrant Experience
- NR
- 2006
- 56 min
The immigrant experience has inspired one of the richest strands in American literature. The writers in this collection of conversations from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" discuss how that experience has influenced their writing. Authors include Frank McCourt, Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, Oscar Hijuelos, Jeffrey Eugenides, and historian Carlos Eire.
Writing and the Immigrant Experience is a 2006 documentary with a runtime of 56 minutes.