tavis: never longhand?right out of school, my first year as a newspaper, was the first year computers flooded newspapers. i have never written professionally on anything but a computer. tavis: you talked about the frank morgan documentary. your stuff has been made in film. you talk about pacoima -- about "the lincoln lawyer," were you pleased with that? >> they did a great job. tavis: is there more in the offering? >> i finally got the rights to harry bosch back. he was tied up for 10 years. i wrote a lot of book. we have some partnerships developed. i am writing a television show. everything in hollywood is a big "if." if it is going to happen, it will be pretty soon. tavis: what you imagine will happen to harry bosch a couple years from now? or do you have no idea? >> i do not think too far ahead normally, but i am forced into it. he has a 16-year-old daughter who has an understanding of her father's mission. you can tell she wants to continue the mission. she is pretty young now. i am thinking in terms o

when he had finished writing witness and he rode it out longhand, he wanted to have it published by the largest or one of the largest american publishers. as a fellow book publisher, he enjoyed the story. called and made a point. and they gave him his time. he came in and introduced in self to the woman sitting at the front desk and said that he was here. and so she called up to his office and she set, whitaker chambers is your. there was a pause. he said get the son of a bitch and a fair. and apparently surf had an intern who worked for him who have really never said anything before. he would help of his files and so on. he sort of stood up and said, mr. cirque, you're making a mistake. he said, whitaker chambers is an eminent man with a very powerful story to tell, and i suspect he has written a book that needs to be published, and you should see him. he did. of course random house did publish. we brought the paperback rights about ten years later. to start with, of course, when whitaker chambers was -- when he published witnessed there really was no concerted movement. there were a f

the true saying he wasn't writing ever, in his early days when he wrote his father, he wrote in longhand. >> rose: was that a good buyography. >> it is a good buyography. >> rose: a great biography. >> knox i don't think it is a great biography because it is so shamelessly partisan. and churchill gets his own way by arguments both fair and foul. and the foul bit is that he's quite shame unless suppressing evidence that he didn't like. >> but i think the writing thing, i mean-- going back to what is actually in the churchill archives and i'm sure in the position, i mean he-- as i mentioned earlier he would actually-- he would also be in inq, he without actually scratch out the type of word and replace it with another phrase. another word. so yes, de write but you are-- he didn't basically sit down at a desk. >> he walked around, he walks up and down. >> he showed me exactly where he stood and where he walked and what was standing around. >> and so you have the -- >> what we do also was that he would have everybody, you foe be this, we have everybody write their version of what happened at