historical novel

But how she created the enthralling historical novel “The Great Mann” is a story that owes as much to Lurie’s ability to reinvent herself as it does to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” the iconic 20th century critique of the American dream, which provided a touchstone for the novel.

Penelope Fitzgerald is one of my favorite writers, so when I heard that Kane was writing a historical novel about Fitzgerald’s real trip to Mexico in 1952 to see about a potential inheritance from a silver mine, I stopped everything I was doing and requested a copy.

L.A. author Lisa See explains how her historical novel about a doctor, ‘Lady Tan’s Circle of Women,’ was inspired by an antique bed in her family store.

That output goes beyond memoirs to include books about aging, his mother, faith, peace, and good governance as well as a book of poetry, a historical novel and a children’s book.

“Roots” premiered on ABC in January 1977, just a few months after Alex Haley published the historical novel upon which it was based -- a phenomenon on the back of a phenomenon.