Hosts: David Adler Guests: Warren Adler This interview was recorded 10 days before the passing of 91 years old Novelist Warren Adler. He comes to terms with terminal health issues and is faced with making hard choices to preserve his dignity and autonomy. In this tough episode, his son David Adler conducts the last interview with his dad. Throughou…

In this episode of Then, the Oral Memoirs of Novelist Warren Adler, David Adler, his son, interviews Warren on his memories and recovery from a recent minor stroke and the challenges of dealing with a spouse with Alzheimer’s. During their discussion, Warren also confesses that a negative review he wrote about Random Hearts, a novel and a subsequent…

In this episode, novelist Warren Adler tells the secrets of how his novel the, War of the Roses went from a dinner party conversation to a global phenomenon. He gives insights into how a novelist who thinks of himself as an artist can turn works of the mind into movies, tv shows, plays and musicals. He tells equally intriguing stories of several of…

Author Warren Adler talk with his son David about how his writing career didn’t start until he was over 50. This is the perfect episode for the aspiring writer who needs to balance making a living and living out their passion. Adler discusses how he got his first novel published and how he kept going despite hundreds of rejection letters. He tries …

In this episode, Warren Adler talks to his son David and talks about life in Washington D.C. during the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. To raise his family, Adler put his novel writing career on hold and earned his living selling his talent for writing. He got his foot in the door as the PR chief for the Jewish War Veterans of America and then later as an en…

Drafted during the Korean War into a regimental combat team, his writing experience gets him miraculously transferred to the Pentagon as Washington Correspondent for Armed Forces Press Service where his byline goes all over the world and he meets General George Marshall and many other top military figures as he reports on the Korean War. He has the…

In this episode, novelist Warren Adler brings us into the world of being a copy boy for the iconic New York Daily News in its heyday offering a stirring narrative of the great era of competitive and frenetic newspapering . He offers a colorful description as one of the very few Jews in a sea of hard drinking Irishmen and how he joined them in the a…

Novelist Warren Adler discovers his passion for writing as he supports himself and navigates the larger world of girls, college, job hunting and journalism. He is inspired by his college english literature professor who was his major influence to convincing him to pursue his dream of being a writer. Teenagers like him were in demand in the odd job …

Novelist Warren Adler was too young to serve in World War II but brings insights into what it was like to go through his adolescent years under the cloud of war. Imagine, too, what it was like sitting around with the family listening to the radio at night before and after school homework was completed and starting to discover the opposite sex. He a…

With memories going back to age 3, novelist Warren Adler brings us back to his shared house in Brownsville New York home that was shared by his entire extended family. He takes on a trip to the butcher shop with his grandmother who only spoke Yiddish and describes his larger than life Grandfather who was the patriarch of the family. The stories bri…