Historical Fiction, World - World War I and World War II Go to: World War I | World War II: Pre-WWII: 1932-1938, 1939-1945, Aftermath and The Holocaust 1914-1918 And in the Morning by John Wilson When 16-year-old John Jay s father joins the British forces to fight in France, he is killed 10 days later. John joins up after his mother dies of grief. Then he too is shot, receiving a head injury and worse when he wanders from his unit. (SLJ gr. 9+) My …

Back in 1994, I wasn’t a published writer but the place crackled with fictional potential and, 12 years later, I began to reconstruct Dejima myself in a book now published as The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet . I didn’t set out to write a historical novel just for the heck of it – you’d have to be mad. Rather, only within this genre could the book be written. This being my first, I read a number of others to avoid reinventing wheels. Small hope …

Nishant Choksi Long dismissed as genre fiction, the historical novel has now established itself in the literary mainstream, thanks in part to heavyweight authors like two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel. For me, more than any other medium, historical fiction brings the past to life and makes it matter. The best historical fiction does more than conjure up an exotic backdrop for a conventional storyline. To truly evoke the past, the characters …

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