Inside Historical Fiction with Mary Fillmore
Mary Fillmore is the author of An Address in Amsterdam, a novel set during WWII. She is neither Dutch nor Jewish and yet has written a story about the Holocaust
January 26, 2017
Mary Fillmore is the author of An Address in Amsterdam, a novel set during WWII. She is neither Dutch nor Jewish and yet has written a story about the Holocaust
From Melbourne, Australia, Elise McCune, author of Castle of Dreams and a memoir called From the Heart, gives us her take on writing historical fiction. MKT: What are the ‘magic ingredients’
Deborah Lawrenson shares a unique perspective on WWII – that of Portugal and its capital city Lisbon. Deborah is the author of 300 Days of Sun and several other novels.
Therese Down’s The End of Law “delves deep into an area of Nazi Germany that few speak of and many often do not know much about”. With that enticing premise, I
Tony Russo contacted me recently about his upcoming novel, DARKEST HOUR which was a semi-finalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards for Young Adult fiction. He is also the author of ZAK
My husband recommended All The Light We Cannot See in January, and again in February. I began reading it then, but was waylaid by other reading obligations. Having fulfilled those, I escaped
Where does the time go? I began this blog in early 2012 and here it is March 2015. Three years and 381 posts later so much has happened. So I’m
This week’s Bookends, a feature in the New York Times Book Review, asks two authors to describe their non-literary influences. Thomas Mallon who writes historical fiction cites photos such as one
Recently, Mom gave me her parents’ photo album from their 1936 trip to France for the Vimy memorial dedication. Their pictures are a poignant reminder of a war that affected
I’ve written before of the bits of treasure unearthed as Mom and I cleared out her condo — letters and photos and mementos from long ago. Someone treasured them then
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
