Children of Possibility with Pico Iyer

Educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard, Pico Iyer taught writing and literature at Harvard before joining Time in 1982 as a writer on world affairs. He is a prolific writer who since 1980 has written up to a hundred articles a year for more than a hundred magazines and newspapers. He has written a film script for Miramax and initiated the Hart House Lecture Series at the University of Toronto. In 1995 Utne Reader named him one of one hundred visionaries worldwide who could "change your life."

He is the author of two novels and seven non-fiction books, including:

• The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Vintage 1992)
• The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Knopf 2008)

Host: Michael Toms       Interview Date: 4/22/2008      Program Number: C0057

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