Daniel Yergin
American author, speaker, energy expert, and economic historian
1940s
A Streetcar Named Desire
Play written by Tennessee Williams first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her privileged background to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister and brother-in-law
Native Son
Novel written by the American author Richard Wright
All the King’s Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
The Loved One
Short, satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
Lark Rise to Candleford
Trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century
Berlin Diary
First-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer
I Capture the Castle
First novel by the English author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley had moved to California
The Man Who Loved Children
1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead
No Exit
1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre