Career
She worked as an editor for Writer magazine in Boston before moving to Los Angeles with her husband, film and television director Leslie Martinson. Prior to parlaying her love of literature into a self-financed half-hour television series on books, she was involved in public relations for the Coro Foundation and taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Judaism.
The Connie Martinson Talks Books Collection, now donated to Claremont Graduate University, consists of nearly 3,000 television interviews (L.A. CityView Channel 35, Government-access television cable TV and PBS in New York) with authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years. Included in the collection are interviews with Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Al Gore, Rosa Parks, Gore Vidal, Studs Terkel, and Joyce Carol Oates. One of her most famous interviews took place in 1995 when she interviewed a then little-known author and future President of the United States named Barack Obama about his first book, Dreams From My Father. Interviews with a diverse group of best-selling authors include Matthew Pearl, Cathy Scott, Stanley Wolpert, Ved Mehta, Roger Cohen, and Vincent Bugliosi.
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