by Stephanie Dray | Jun 3, 2016 | America's First Daughter, American Revolution, Martha Jefferson Randolph, My Works, News, RevolutionEssays
Cross-posted from DrayKamoie.com Thomas Jefferson was the voice of the American Revolution, the author of the Declaration of Independence, the founder of the University of Virginia, and the third president of the United States. But he was also a man famously ruled as...
by Stephanie Dray | May 13, 2016 | For Writers, Historical Fiction Genre
Shaping Historical vs. Fictional Characters If you’re writing a historical fiction novel that features characters you made up out of whole cloth, congratulations! Your job is, paradoxically, a thousand times easier than writing about someone who actually existed. The...
by Stephanie Dray | May 13, 2016 | America's First Daughter, For Readers, My Works, News
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by Stephanie Dray | Apr 28, 2016 | Miscellany
Some of these jokes are as flat and humorless as the presidents who uttered them, but some of them made me snort and howl. What do you think? Here’s an excerpt to get you started. George W. Bush, at the 2006 White House correspondents’ dinner “Cheney’s a good...
by Stephanie Dray | Apr 10, 2016 | For Writers, Historical Fiction Genre
As currently structured, the Historical Novel Society is open to readers, bloggers, and authors. It alternates conference years in the United States and England. This often means two years between seeing friends and colleagues, pitching to editors, and...
