The Past Is Never Static. The Same Can Be Said of Our Books

Sometimes it feels as if the people that write Nonfiction and the people that write Fiction exist in entirely different worlds. Both are held accountable for what they write, but depending on the mix of fact and fancy, and how it’s applied to the text, that accountability can be a strange, shifting thing. Plenty of authors have gotten in trouble for rendering the past inaccurately. Others have gotten in trouble for excluding certain elements or depicting elements in ways that meet with disapp...