Historical fiction

<p><span class="deck"> Our most popular practitioner of the art speaks of the challenges and rewards of writing</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Vidal’s Lincoln</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> James Wilson was an important but now obscure draftsman of the Constitution. Carry Wills is a journalist and historian fascinated by what went on in the minds of our founders. The two men meet in an imaginary dialogue across the centuries.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A new novel about Lincoln examines questions about civil liberties in wartime, staff loyalties and disloyalties, and especially, Lincoln’s priorities</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">“Good fiction writers,” says the author, “write the kind of history that good historians can’t or don’t write.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THE BEST OF TODAY’S ALTERNATE HISTORY ISN’T LIKELY TO CHEER YOU UP. BUT IT CERTAINLY WON’T BORE YOU.</span></p>