Truthful fictions conversations with American biographical novelists (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rise of the American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey -- Interviews: 1. Julia Alvarez: Fixed Facts and Creative Freedom in the Biographical Novel -- 2. Russell Banks: The Truth Contract in the Biographical Novel -- 3. Madison Smartt Bell: Big Revolutionary Bangs in the Biographical Novel -- 4. M. Allen Cunningham: Building the Imaginative Record with the Biographical Novel -- 5. Michael Cunningham: The Biographical Novel and the Complexity of Postmodern Interiors -- 6. Anita Diamant: Imagining a Matrilineal History in the Biographical Novel -- 7. Bruce Duffy: In the Fog of the Biographical Novel's History -- 8. Ron Hansen: Sensualizing and Contextualizing Historical 'Truth' in the Biographical Novel -- 9. Sherry Jones: The Art of Claiming Power in the Biographical Novel -- 10. Rebecca Kanner: Feminist Naming in the Biographical Novel -- 11. Kate Moses: Re-Composing a Life in the Biographical Novel -- 12. Joyce Carol Oates: Enhanced Symbolic Interiors in the Biographical Novel -- 13. Lance Olsen: The Biographical Novel's Practice of Not-Knowing -- 14. Jay Parini: Reflections on Biographical Fiction -- 15. Joanna Scott: The Masking Art of the Biographical Novel -- 16. Edmund White: Gay Interiors and the Biographical Novel -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index