Historical Fiction

Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City… Only to Disappear Into It

Dwyer Murphy Talks to the Author of The Great Mistake About the Life and Times of Andrew Haswell Green

 
By Dwyer Murphy  June 3, 2021
Historical Fiction

How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

By Rafe Posey  May 21, 2021
Historical Fiction

How Do You Write a Historical Novel About Under-Documented Lives?

By Emily Hourican  May 5, 2021
Historical Fiction

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

By Stephanie Dray  April 9, 2021
Historical Fiction

Carol Edgarian and Ann Beattie Talk Complex Characters and Literary Inspirations

By Ann Beattie  March 2, 2021
Historical Fiction

The Wife of “Italy’s George Washington” Was a Radical in Her Own Right

By Diana Giovinazzo  August 26, 2020
Historical Fiction

Women Who Did What They Wanted: A Reading List

By C.W. Gortner  May 27, 2020
Historical Fiction

Lauren Francis-Sharma:
‘What if the Facts Aren’t the Facts at All?’

By Lauren Francis-Sharma  May 22, 2020
Historical Fiction

Anna Solomon Reimagines a Biblical Villain as a
Feminist Hero

By Brian Gresko  May 13, 2020
Historical Fiction

Elsa Hart on Writing an 18th-Century Crime-Solving Librarian

By New Books Network  November 1, 2019
Historical Fiction

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

By Jay Parini  August 21, 2019
Historical Fiction

On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User’s Manual

By Caitlin Horrocks  August 9, 2019
Historical Fiction

Why We’ll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

By Meg Donohue  May 28, 2019
Historical Fiction

Damian Barr Moves From Memoir to Fiction and Finds Inspiration in a Real Life Crime

By Daneet Steffens  May 8, 2019
Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction Can Be As
Urgent As the News

By Joshua Furst  April 16, 2019
Historical Fiction

The Story of a Slave State, a Free State, and the River Separating Them

By New Books Network  January 25, 2019
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