Conversations with Biographical Novelists

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? <br/><br/>In this new collection of interviews authors such as Emma Donoghue David Ebershoff David Lodge Colum McCann Colm Tóibín and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history truth and fiction. Taken together these conversations enable readers to explore how these issues are negotiated in contemporary world literature.<br/><br/>Taken together these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue promotes new ways of thinking about history politics and social justice and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people.