People on Books was an MPR book review series that ran from 1979-1980. It contained commentary on book releases from various local reviewers, usually aligned with the subject matter of publication.
April 4, 1979 - On this segment of People on Books, author Melita Denning (Vivian Godfrey), of St. Paul’s Gnostica Magazine and Bookstore, reviews Atlantis, Fact or Fiction?, edited by Edward S. Ramage.
April 27, 1979 - Former Minnesota governor Elmer L. Andersen reviews the book The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate by Maurice H. Stans.
June 29, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Jeffrey Barnes reviews Betty Jean Lifton’s book Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience.
August 10, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Daphne Krause, president of the Minneapolis Age and Opportunity Center, reviews the book Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years by Gay Gaer Luce.
August 15, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Paul Anderson, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, reviews Everybody's Money Book by Jane Bryant Quinn.
August 17, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Bob Muscala, former administrator of drug programs at the University of Minnesota, reviews Windward Passage: A Novel by Mark Brewer.
August 24, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Ron Libertus, liaison officer of the Department of Natural Resources, reviews Hanta Yo: An American Saga by Ruth Beebe Hill.
September 7, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, John Cal Brenner reviews Men’s Survival Resource Book by Dan Weiss.
September 14, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Charles Lutz, director of Global Education for the American Lutheran Church, reviews the book The Famine Plot by John Freivalds.
September 19, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Judge Donald Peterson reviews The Witness Who Spoke With God and Other Tales from the Courthouse by Milton S. Gould.