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Cameron Macauley

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Cameron Macauley has published short fiction in Prism International, The North American Review, The Sonora Review and Quick Fiction. After getting degrees in anthropology, psychology, and medical science, Cameron Macauley spent thirty years working in disaster relief and international health. During his career he has worked in a refugee camp in Thailand, a besieged city in Angola, a Yanomami Indian village in Brazil, and a mission hospital in Sumatra.

He teaches at James Madison University.

He has co-authored two novels with his father Robie Macauley: CITADEL OF ICE (2014), and THE ESCAPE OF ALFRED DREYFUS (2016), both from unpublished manuscripts found after Robie's death in 1995.

His short story collection is SIGHTSEEING IN HELL (2017).

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Cameron Macauley Probably Paolo and Francesca from Dante's Inferno. The reason is because of the irony behind their fate: Dante has placed them in Hell as adulterers, …moreProbably Paolo and Francesca from Dante's Inferno. The reason is because of the irony behind their fate: Dante has placed them in Hell as adulterers, but his rendition of their story is entirely sympathetic, as if to say that their punishment is unjust, that love is sacred even if it violates the sanctity of marriage. Dante pitied many people that he met in the Inferno, but Paolo and Francesca stand out as victims of an unjust Divine Order. Oddly, they are together for all eternity--a peculiar way of mitigating their pain.(less)
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Truth, Falsehood and Exaggeration in “Citadel of Ice”

The novel Citadel of Ice is based on many actual events that occurred during the First World War, but like all good historical fiction, the authors took a number of liberties with the facts.


To start with the truths: an ice citadel of the kind described was in fact constructed in the Marmolada Glacier at about the same time—the winter of 1916-17, by the Austrian engineer Leo Handl. The book’s descr

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