'Immersed' in the story

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There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.” – Thomas Mallon</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An award-winning Novelist, essayist, and critic, Mallon (whose 65^th birthday is today) is known for historical novels that are renowned for attention to detail and context as they provide their readers into a “fly on the wall" view of the historical events swirling around them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The author of 9 novels, including <i>Henry and Clara</i>, <i>Two Moons</i>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and<i>Watergate</i></span>, he also has written one of the definitive works on plagiarism, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stolen Words</i>, and two volumes of his insightful essays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>All told, he has written 16 books and hundreds of news stories, features and essays in his long career as journalist and creative writer.</span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a journalist who is fairly well versed about Watergate, I really enjoyed Mallon’s terrific crafting of his 2013 novel <i>Watergate</i>, a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The colorful retelling of the Watergate scandal from the perspective of 7 characters is a truly great read.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Historical fiction, he said, is the genre in which he is most interested. “I think the main thing that has led me to write historical fiction is that it is a relief from the self,” he said.                                                                                                                                             <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7jjNPzJD7Xs..." imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7jjNPzJD7X..." /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As for advice to writers of historical fiction, he offered this system that has worked so well for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>“For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription. For <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Two Moons</i>, which was set in 1877, I think I read just about every day of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Washington Evening Star </i>for that year. For <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henry and Clara</i>, I read the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Albany Evening Journal </i>of the time.”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Share <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Writer’s Moment</i> with a friend by clicking the g+1 button below.</span></b></div>