The best authors inform their works of fiction with details, memories, and remembered or imagined dialogue from the most vivid memories and impressions from their lives. Fiction allows writers
Month: September 2016
Reading Tom Sawyer as a Child and as an Adult
It has been almost 60 years since my fifth-grade teacher read Mark Twain’s, The Prince and the Pauper, and Tom Sawyer, to our class for the last 15 minutes
The Challenge of Evaluating Poe’s, Eureka: A Prose Poem
Reprinted with permission from the Richmond, Virginia Poe Museum In my last column, I discussed the reasons that I decided not to focus my entire Master’s Thesis research on Poe’s