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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.