Adapted from Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the ... Take the narrator of Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, for example, whose stories of the Vietnam War and its aftermath ...

Kerney, who spent a decade writing the book, talks about the difficult task of fictionalizing the past. First, I need to confess that I do not like what we call historical fiction. Nor do I ...

Not an easy task for someone who'd spent the last fifteen years writing history, you might think? And you'd be right. Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers ...

In an interview in 2012, Hilary Mantel, the author of the “Wolf Hall” trilogy, was asked if she felt any trepidation writing about the Tudors. “Much historical fiction that centers on real ...

Q: You didn’t think you were writing historical fiction. A: Not until fairly far into the process, when I realized it was going to get described. It was just a novel set in the past. I was never ...

Author Emma Donoghue joins Morning Joe to discuss 'The Paris Express,' her new work of historical fiction about an 1895 train crash in Paris. The book is based on an actual event. Mark Carney Wins ...

Laurie Frankel is a novelist. Her most recent book is “Family Family.” When you’re writing historical fiction, you usually know it. It’s not that historical fiction doesn’t have present ...

Born in Washington, D.C., she lives in London with her husband. CHEVALIER: I prefer fiction. I find it harder to get through nonfiction. Sometimes I get the point of a nonfiction book and then it ...