Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists

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Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists is written by Michael Lackey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1623566150 (ISBN 10) and 9781623566159 (ISBN 13).

In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and 'truth' production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre.