Turning Historical Figures Into Fictional Detectives
USA TODAY Bestselling and Agatha Award-winning Author Amanda Flower will discuss the tricks and tips for turning real life historical figures into fictional characters. Flower is the author of the Emily Dickinson Mystery Series and the Katharine Wright Mystery Series featuring the Wright Brothers. In her talk, she will emphasize the best kind of research, finding the character’s unique voice that honors the person they actually were, and why setting both time and place are essentials to get right to fully understand the historical figure.
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Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over 35 mystery novels. Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she has been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World. She currently writes for Penguin-Random House (Berkley), Kensington, and Sourcebooks.
