Terry Gross

New York-based writer Paul Auster is the author of 10 novels. His latest is The Book of Illusions. For a year beginning in October 1999, Auster gathered stories sent to him by men and women across the United States. The stories were all true, short and personal. As part of NPR's National Story Project, Auster read them over the air. Those stories were collected in the book, I Thought My Father Was God. Auster also wrote the screenplays for Smoke and Blue in the Face.

Novelist Michael Cunningham. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his recent novel The Hours. Cunningham's new book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown, is about the town he fell in love with as a young man, has lived in and returned to, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Cunningham is also the author of A Home At the End of the World.

New York City Police Detective Dave Fitzpatrick. He took thousands of photographs on Sept. 11, many of them from a police helicopter high above the city. He also spent two months at Ground Zero photographing the rescue efforts. Many of his photographs and that of other police officers are featured in the book, Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of September 11, 2001.