‘100 New Yorkers of the 1970s’: Free profiles of Isaac Asimov, George Plimpton, Betty Friedan, Tom Wolfe, Lionel Hampton, others

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By David Rothman

Some of the interviewees are more famous today, some forgotten, many dead, but all live on in a free collection of sprightly profiles called 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s.

Max Millard, the author, who generously donated and digitized his writings for Project Gutenberg, wrote for modest little weekly newspapers when he was just starting out in journalism.

But what an assortment of interviewees: Isaac Asimov, George Plimpton, Betty Friedan, Tom Wolfe and Lionel Hampton, among others!

“I had a heart attack this year,” Millard quotes Asimov (1965 photo above), who died a decade and a half later in 1992.

“I might keep writing for another 30 years. But if for some reason I am no longer able to write, then it will certainly take all the terrors of dying away, so there will be that silver lining.”

You can download the free collection from Gutenberg or from Manybooks.net.

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