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 contempo

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 contempo

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum

Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, lead

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as g