View) NAACP Image Award 2009 Award for Best Talk Series (The View) 2010 Nomination for Best Talk Series Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards 1998 Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television. Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 1991 Golden Plate Award presented by Awards Council member Beverly Sills. Bibliography In the late 1960s, Walters wrote a magazine article, "How to Talk to Practically Anyone About Practically Anything", which drew upon the kinds of things people said to her, which were often mistakes. Shortly after the article appeared, she received a letter from Doubleday expressing interest in expanding it into a book. Walters felt that it would help "tongue-tied, socially awkward people—the many people who worry that they can't think of the right thing to say to start a conversation." Walters published the book How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything in 1970, with the assistance of ghostwriter June Callwood. To Walters's great surprise, the book was a success. As of 2008, it had gone through eight printings, sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, and had been translated into at least six languages. Walters published her autobiography, Audition: A Memoir, in 2008. See also New Yorkers in journalism Explanatory notes References Further reading External links Television Interview – Television Academy Interviews 1929 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American memoirists 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers ABC News personalities Age controversies American people of Polish-Jewish descent American television news anchors American television reporters and correspondents American television talk show hosts American women memoirists American women television journalists American women television writers Birch Wathen Lenox School alumni Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host winners Ethical Culture Fieldston School alumni Jewish American journalists Jewish American writers Jewish women writers Journalists from Massachusetts Journalists from New York City Miami Beach Senior High School alumni NBC News people People from Brookline, Massachusetts Sarah Lawrence College alumni Women autobiographers Writers from Boston Writers from Manhattan Writers from Miami