John Steinbeck, gave a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Here is a clip.
Steinbeck’s attitude in the interview is great since most of the questions are silly anyway and he treats them accordingly.
Steinbeck is most famous for his novel The Grapes of Wrath written in 1939. Steinbeck commented that an author’s primary function is criticism. Interestingly, he comments on how he enjoyed Hemingway’s short stories, which were great favorites of mine as a child, especially Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea.