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.
October 5, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Pamela Thompson reviews So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America, 1865-1895 by Norton Juster.
October 17, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Dulcie Lawrence reviews Private Lives in the Imperial City by John Leonard.
October 19, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Jack Stanton reviews MacMillan Company’s The Baseball Encyclopedia.
October 26, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Mark Swanholm reviews Life, Law and Letters by Louis Auchincloss.
October 31, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, pianist Rees Allison reviews Pianist's Progress by Helen Drees Ruttencutter, a profile of piano student Robin McCabe.
November 2, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Tim White, of COMPAS, reviews Family Encyclopedia of Art edited by Bernard L. Myers and Trewin Copplestone.
November 7, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Marge Hart, of Miniature World, reviews A Family Dollhouse by Sara B. Stein.
November 9, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Lois James, of the Minnesota Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, reviews Your Child Can Read, and You Can Help: A Book for Parents by Jane Ervin.
November 30, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Robert Cougill reviews Pappy: The Life of John Ford by Dan Ford.
December 5, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Brother Theodore Drahmann from College of Saint Thomas, reviews Surviving and Other Essays by Bruno Bettelheim.