Author: ann

 I had no plan to write a novel of any kind when I retired, let alone a historical biofiction, and it was sheer accident that started me on this path. I was reading the private diaries of the 19th century French novelist Henri Beyle, who …

Biographical fiction —that is, fiction which takes for its subject the life of a real, identified individual instead of an imaginary character — has long been considered a minor genre, not to be taken seriously and certainly not to be trusted. The on-line Encyclopedia Britannica, …