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What Can You Learn From A Historical Novel?

Author: Daniel Aaron

“Good writers,” says the author, “write the kind of history good historians can’t or don’t write”

Nat Turner Revisited

Author: William Styron

On the twenty-fifth 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