c-span: and you read the "monster" knowing this, stephen crane's novel? >> guest: i knew that it had something to do with a man disfigured in fire and i was riabitt dn knnythtaan didn't know crane's work at all i somehow had missed "the red badge" and his other great short stories, so... c-span: where were you living when you did this? >> guest: when.. c-span: when you read the "monster"? >> guest: when i read the "monst i li issse at twa benks d shy t a s sting about for another idea, but i really wasn't thinking of doing another biography, so itind of came out of the blue. c-span: what was your first biography? >> guest: it was of the new yorker magazine editor katharine it spanat gn teedth g: well, i was a fan of the new yorker and of e. b. white's writing in particular. when i was in graduate school in boston, letters of e. b. white were published and i read it and thought that it was a wonderful love story, really, about a man otth. tio i became very interested in katharine white and started reading a little bit about her, and then during the summer 1

stephen tschida has the latest. >> the rescue workers have turned to these cranes, using these to try to dig some of the debris the mountain of debris and pieces of the roof off of the men. off to the left, the light area of the roof of this huge warehouse is the part that gave way last night. it happened at about 10:00 in the evening. newschopper 7 hovered above as the rescue effort went on below. >> i hope he is alive and i hope he gets out safe. >> a forklift operator knocked over an enormous storage shelf lead with documents pushing over racks eventually taking out the support for the roof. the whole thing came crashing down at about 10:00 last night. one of the 12 employees who got out safely was too distraught and upset to talk today. some of the workers remained on site all night and into the day while rescuers tried to locate the missing forklift operator. employees kept a constant quest for information. >> to hear there is a guy trapped in there really, that is what i am concerned with is them getting him out of there. >> it is an arduous and painstakingly slow job. the missing man's wife remained on site