Author interviews -- Curled Up With A Good Book

Ben Markovits on the "truth question" inherent in his biographical novels of Byron:

"One of the things I try to do in the book is expose the historical scaffolding on which the novels rest: I want to show my work, as they say in math class, and not just the answers. Often, at readings, people would ask me how much of what I had read was true. So this truth-question drives some of Childish Loves, and not just in the historical sections. Writers often pretend to hate the question, how much is true? But it seems a very natural one to ask. Apart from anything else, writers have a professional interest in it. We can see the finished product, and if we know the material that produced it, we can probably work out the rest of the chemical equation."

Read the full interview with Childish Loves author Ben Markovits.

Ben Markovits
on Childish Loves

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Alumit, Noel (Talking to the Moon)

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Conrad, Christine (Mademoiselle Benoir)
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Cowell, Stephanie (Marrying Mozart)
Cross, Donna Woolfolk (Pope Joan)

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Den Hartog, Kristen (Water Wings)
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee (Queen of Dreams)
Dolby, Tom (The Sixth Form)
Donoghue, Emma (Life Mask)

Falco, Edward (Wolf Point)
Fennelly, Beth Ann (Tender Hooks)
Fenton, Craig (Have You Seen the Stars Tonite)
Fenton, Craig (Take Me to a Circus Tent)
Florian, Douglas (zoo's who - children's)
Forbes, Elena (Die With Me)
Ford, Michael Thomas (Changing Tides)
Francis, David (Stray Dog Winter)
Fuller, David (Sweetsmoke)
Fulmer, David (Jass)
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Fulmer, David (The Blue Door)
Fulmer, David (Lost River)

Gaige, Amity (The Folded World)
Gaiter, Leonce (Bourbon Street)
Ghosh, Amitav (The Hungry Tide)
Giridharadas, Anand (India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking)
Goble, Faith (Elementa)
Gore, Kristin (Sammy's House)
Greenwood, Gillian (Satisfaction)
Gregory, Philippa (The Other Queen)
Grippando, James (Born to Run)
Gross, Andrew (Eyes Wide Open)
Gruen, Sara (Water for Elephants)

Haeger, Diane (The Queen's Mistake)
Hansen, Jim Michael (Fatal Laws)
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Higginbotham, Susan (The Traitor's Wife)
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Hopkinson, Nalo (The Salt Roads)
Hospital, Janette Turner (Orpheus Lost)
Houston, Pam (Sight Hound)
Hudson, Suzanne (In a Temple of Trees)
Hudson, Suzanne (In the Dark of the Moon)

Jha, Raj Kamal (If You are Afraid of Heights)
Joseph, Sheri (Stray)

Kabak, Carrie (Cover the Butter)
Kelman, Nic (Girls)
Kinder, R.M. (An Absolute Gentleman)
Kline, Christina Baker (Bird in Hand)
Knight, Robert M. (Rock Gods: Forty Years of Rock Photography)
Kowalski, William (Eddie's Bastard)
Kriegel, Mark (Namath)
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Lakhani, Anisha (Schooled)
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Lawson, Michael (The Inside Ring)
Lawson, Michael (The Second Perimeter)
Leroy, Margaret (Yes, My Darling Daughter)
Lindbergh, Judith (The Thrall's Tale)
Lindsay, Jeff (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)
Long, David (The Inhabited World)
Luongo, Michael T. (The Voyeur, Gay Travels in the Muslim World)

Maistros, Louis (The Sound of Building Coffins)
Malladi, Amulya (The Mango Season)
Markovits, Ben (Childish Loves)
Martin, Eric (Winners)
Mayo, C.M. (The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire) - guest blog
McBride, Regina (The Marriage Bed)
McNicholl, Damian (A Son Called Gabriel)
Meadows, Rae (No One Tells Everything)
Meyer, Deon (Dead at Daybreak)
Meyers, Kent (The Work of Wolves)
Meyers, Kent (Twisted Tree)
Moran, Michelle (Cleopatra's Daughter)
Morrissey, Donna (Sylvanus Now)
Morrissey, Michael (The Pride and the Pressure)
Murphy, D.J. (A Thousand Veils)
Murphy, Peter (Lagan Love)

Nani, Christel (Diary of a Medical Intuitive)
Novack, Sandra (Precious)

O'Dell, Tawni (Sister Mine)
O'Malley, Thomas (In the Province of Saints)
Owens, Sharon (The Ballroom on Magnolia Street)

Phan, Aimee (We Should Never Meet)
Picoult, Jodi (My Sister's Keeper)
Prato, Greg (The Eric Carr Story and MTV Ruled the World)

Quinn, Jay (The Beloved Son)
Quinn, Jay (The Boomerang Kid)

Redfern, Nick (On the Trail of the Saucer Spies)
Reuben, Shelly (Tabula Rasa)
Robotham, Michael (Suspect)
Rose, M.J. (The Reincarnationist)
Ryan, Patrick (Send Me and Saints of Augustine)
Rymer, Ruth (Susannah, a Lawyer)

Saltzman, Devyani (Shooting Water)
Schutt, Christine (Florida)
Scofield, Sandra (Occasions of Sin)
Scott, Susan Holloway (Royal Harlot)
Scudamore, James (The Amnesia Clinic)
Sharp, Ken (Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy)
Sherman, Dayne (Welcome to the Fallen Paradise)
Sherwood, Frances (Vindication)
Shreve, Anita (Light on Snow)
Silver, Marisa (No Direction Home)
Slaughter, Carolyn (A Black Englishman)
Smith, Anne Easter (A Rose for the Crown)
Smith, Bob (Selfish & Perverse)
Somerville, Rowan (The End of Sleep)
Stover, Matthew Woodring (Blade of Tyshalle)
Straight, Susan (A Million Nightingales)
Straight, Susan (Take One Candle, Light a Room)
Svrluga, Barry (National Pastime)

Tripp, Dawn (Game of Secrets)

Upp, Sharon (House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera)

Vantrease, Brenda Rickman (The Mercy Seller)
Vreeland, Susan (The Book That Changed My Life)

Waldman, Ayelet (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits)
Wall, Mick (Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica)
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Wallace, Melanie (The Housekeeper)
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White, Edmund (Hotel de Dream)
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Weir, Alison (The Lady Elizabeth)
Westin, Jeane (The Virgin's Daughters: In the Court of Elizabeth I)
Wilson, John Morgan (Spider Season)
Wilson, Robert (The Big Killing)
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Wilson, Robert (The Hidden Assassins)
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Wilson, Robert Charles (Axis)
Worth, Sandra (The King's Daughter)
Worth, Sandra (Lady of the Roses)
Worth, Sandra (The Rose of York trilogy)

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