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What Can You Learn From a Historical Novel?
Author: Daniel Aaron
“Good fiction writers,” says the author, “write the kind of history that good historians can’t or don’t write.”
Nat Turner Revisited
Author: William Styron
On the 25th anniversary of the most controversial historical novel in memory, the author of The Confessions of Nat Turner speaks of a novelist’s duty to history and fiction’s strange power not only to astonish, but to enrage.
A Short and Scary Walk with Andrew Jackson
Author: John Updike
An extraordinary new historical novel begins with the great political scandal of the 1970s, then visits the great political scandal of the 1820s.
My Favorite Historical Novel
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