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History vs. Fiction
14 Feb 2015

History vs. Fiction

by John Harding | posted in: Writer's notebook | 1

“The historian’s problem is always the separating of fact from fantasy,” wrote film historian Robert M. Henderson. That should make everyone who writes “reality-based” historical fiction his arch enemy, including me. My novel “The Ben-Hur Murders: Inside the 1925 Hollywood … Continued

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