Watching Other People Work

WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE WORK, volume three of an autobiography by PeterCarnahan, covers the 18-plus years the author worked as Director of the Theatre andLiterature Programs of The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. This time, from 1972to 1991, was a period of enormous growth for the arts in Pennsylvania and the nation.Reflecting that growth, the PCA budget grew from $286,000 to $12 million during theperiod. During the second decade covered by this volume, Carnahan began his nextcareer, as a writer, publishing his first nonfiction book in 1989.