The material in this post originally appeared in my panel discussion for the 2021 Historical Novel Society Conference, Fact in Fiction: Bringing Long-Lost World to Life. It is my hope that these images will help you picture my process in gathering facts for my novels. In brief, here are my steps: 1) Select the time […]
Jodi Daynard is the author of a bestselling historical novel trilogy that began with The Midwife's Revolt and continued with Our Own Country and A More Perfect Union. Her fourth novel, A Transcontinental Affair, is about two women on the first-ever transcontinental railroad excursion in 1871. A writer of fiction, essays, and short stories, her work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice, the Paris Review, AGNI, and the New England Review. Ms. Daynard has taught writing at Harvard University, MIT, and in the MFA program at Emerson College.
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