The Art of Historical Fiction
August 29th, 2009
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A special episode of With Good Reason recorded live at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville. NPR book critic Alan Cheuse (George Mason University) discusses his recent novel, To Catch the Lightning, about photographer Edward Curtis who documented Native Americans in the early Twentieth Century.
See a collection of Curtis’s photographs here
Also: Mary Doria Russell discusses her novel, Dreamers of the Day, which is set during the Cairo Peace Conference of 1921, during which the modern day Middle Eastern States were mapped into being.
The Virginia Association of Broadcasters in June honored With Good Reason as "Best Public Affairs Program" in the public radio division for the show