30 Years of Oprah’s Book Club: The Authors Behind the Stories We Love

29 sep 2026 · 01:05:53

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To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Oprah’s Book Club - Oprah is joined by four multiple-award winning, best-selling authors including: Viola Davis, Barbara Kingsolver, Abraham Verghese and Ocean Vuong. In her backyard under the oak trees Oprah and these masterful storytellers have a thoughtful conversation about the craft of writing, their processes and the significance the reader brings to their work. Among their works they discuss these Oprah's Book club picks: Finding Me, Demon Copperhead, The Poisonwood Bible, The Emperor of Gladness and The Covenant of Water.

00:00:00 - Welcome authors Barbara Kingsolver, Abraham Verghese, Viola Davis and Ocean Vuong

00:04:30 - Finding characters

00:06:50 - Becoming a writer

00:09:00 - How Viola became a writer

00:12:48 - Viola reading her memoir

00:17:20 - What writers are noticing about right now

00:22:30 - What does being a bestseller mean

00:28:00 - Greatest compliments about their work

00:39:50 - The magic of writing

00:43:00 - When is a sentence done?

00:47:30 - Finding your title

00:52:00 - Is writing personal therapy?