There are few places in America filled with as much beauty and storied history as the Great Smoky Mountains. Stretching ...

Kelly Kerney recently wrote a piece for Publishers Weekly titled “The Impossible Task of Writing Historical Fiction.” In it, Kerney proclaims her dislike for the term historical fiction and its rigid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While you could fill a library with biographies, autobiographies and other nonfiction books about U.S. presidents, the stories of ...

Defining historical fiction is simple enough: We're talking about fictional stories that take place in a real, recognizable period sometime in the past. Beyond definitions, however, it's difficult to ...

Historical fiction has gotten a bad rap for being dull, boring, and even predictable, but this book nerd is here to tell you that's a pretty unfair assessment. Forget the grumbling and groaning you ...

Realist historical fictions, with the rustling demands of their costumes and their period-appropriate speech, often depend on painstakingly described physical veracity, sensory believability, to steep ...

How do we accurately capture the past without falling back into the History Wars? Hartwig HKD/Flickr, CC BY-ND This introductory article is the first in a new series examining the links, problems and ...

There are many examples of historical fiction that are not considered historical romances, even if they share similarities. There may be a strong — perhaps very strong — love story included in the ...

Historical fiction invites us to experience the exotic and the unknown while confirming our common humanity. I do not believe that human nature has changed much over the centuries, and it is possible ...