David Maraniss, Ink in Our Blood

Write on Sarah: from journalism to playwriting

Episode Summary

In this episode, David asks Sarah about her writing, from her early memories of working on school papers with an exacting journalist-dad as her first editor to her work for CBS News/48 Hours, freelancing for the Washington Post, and writing personal blogs, plays, and mysteries.

Episode Notes

In this episode, David asks Sarah about her writing, from her early memories of working on school papers with an exacting journalist-dad as her first editor, to her work for CBS News/48 Hours, freelancing for the Washington Post, and writing personal blogs, plays, (Daughters of the Amendment, Sustain Me, Balls in the Game)  and mysteries, after a first career in theater. David asks Sarah about how she goes from genre to genre, why parenthood and the fight for women’s rights is an impetus for much of her work, and about her most personal story in the Washington Post, her account of struggling with, and later managing, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.