History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
Amy WaldmanMy parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
Amy WaldmanI'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
Amy Waldman