Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researcher’s mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not available anywhere else, let it be in the novel. – from Twayne’s US Authors Series: JOHN A WILLIAMS by Gilbert Muller

Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researcher’s mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not available anywhere else, let it be in the novel. – from Twayne’s US Authors Series: JOHN A WILLIAMS by Gilbert Muller

– John A. Williams –

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