Ian McEwan, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, discussing his novel “Atonement” and other works, from the archive, and recorded in New York City on April 3, 2002.
Since 1978, Ian McEwan has had seventeen novels published and there have been ten film adaptations of his works, along with an additional three original screenplays. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize six times, winning for Amsterdam in 1998. This interview, recorded in New York while he was on a publicity tour for “Atonement,” has not aired in over two decades.