historical fiction
Researching and Reimagining Margot Frank
In my novel, Margot , I reimagine Margot Frank, Anne’s older sister, having survived the war and come to Philadelphia where ...
Writing What You’ve Never Seen: Janice Weizman and Historical Fiction
All fiction writers have a streak of audacity. To make up something and then ask readers to suspend their disbelief ...
Deciding to Forgo Research
One of the great pleasures of writing for me is researching historical events and details that help me understand and ...
Whose Story Is It?
The first step for me in writing fiction is deciding which of my characters is telling the story. I might ...
Places Never Seen
My most recently published novel, The Other Side of the World, contains a 100-page novel-within-the-novel set entirely in Singapore and Borneo. The ...
Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. But it can be hard to tell.I did an enormous amount of research for ...
The Joint
Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteineproject, and reconnecting branches of her family ...
Jews and Indians, Past and Present
This is a guest post by Andrew Tertes, the author of Jacob’s Return. He is blogging here today for Jewish ...
A Jewish Magician at the Egyptian Theatre
When you do anything creative – from writing stories to hooking rugs – people are likely to ask you where ...
The Return of Eli Gershonson
Gerald Kolpan‘s newest book, Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World’s Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, ...