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A Channel for Odysseus: On Wine-Dark Seas by Tad Crawford
BY AJ LYNDON Before writing his two novels, On Wine-Dark Seas (Skyhorse, 2023) and A Floating Life (Arcade, 2014), Tad Crawford had a successful career ...Read Article
Launch: Interview Special – Carol M. Cram on the HNSNA 2023 Conference
INTERVIEW BY REBEKAH SIMMERS The Historical Novel Society North America 2023 Conference (HNSNA 2023) is taking place in San Antonio, Texas, 8-10 June 2023 (both in ...Read Article
New books by Historical Novel Society members, February 2023
Below is a listing of our author members’ newest publications – congratulations to all! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work ...Read Article
A Living, Breathing Poem: Mary Calvi on Alice and Teddy Roosevelt
WRITTEN BY ILYSA MAGNUS Mary Calvi, a multi-Emmy award-winning investigative journalist and weekend host of Inside Edition, does not need another project. Her ...Read Article
New Voices: Dan Jones, Kristen Loesch, Ciera Horton McElroy & Susan Stokes-Chapman
WRITTEN BY MYFANWY COOK Debut novelists Dan Jones, Kristen Loesch, Ciera Horton McElroy, and Susan Stokes-Chapman have creatively transformed historical fact into their ...Read Article
Seams Sewn: Bianca Pitzorno’s Tribute to Seamstresses Past and Present
WRITTEN BY LUCINDA BYATT Bianca Pitzorno is one of Italy’s most renowned children’s writers and the award-winning author of some 70 works ...Read Article
History & Film: Scarecrows & Angel Makers
WRITTEN BY ELISABETH LENCKOS The majority of historical series and films set in twentieth-century Germany take place during the twelve-year period between 1933 and 1945, ...Read Article
Art as Truth/Art as Lie: Henriette Lazardis on Terra Nova
WRITTEN BY JANICE OTTERSBERG Terra Nova (new land), Antarctica, Terra Australis (southern land), the South Pole. It is the early 20th century, when ...Read Article
Outlandish History: The World-Changing Fiction of Diana Gabaldon
WRITTEN BY WILLY MALEY The word “outlander” made its first appearance in 1598 in John Florio’s pioneering Italian-English dictionary, A Worlde of Wordes, ...Read Article
Paths to Freedom: Bodies and Movement in The Color Line
WRITTEN BY MISTY URBAN Prize-winning Somali-Italian author Igiaba Scego’s stirring novel The Color Line (Other Press, 2022, trans. John Cullen and Gregory Conti) ...Read Article
