About the author
Think of history as narrative. Think of historical fiction as expanded narrative, history with all the trimmings, with cause and effect, speculation, personalization. Think of expanded narrative as the story teller reaching out to you, saying, 'pay attention.'
I've loved historical fiction since I first learned to read, and when I started to write, I knew historical fiction would be my genre. And, it would be my way to live other lives, experience other times and places
Join me in the travels in my latest novel, to France in 1923, and New York in 1953, where different generations and different stories merge into one mystery of love, loss, and rediscovery.
We best believe what we remember, and narrative is about memory: giving memories in the form of stories, receiving memories and adding them to our personal stores. Let's remember France and Pablo Picasso and his many loves, the artists, men and women, who helped create the twentieth century with their passion, their talent, their zest.
Jeanne Mackin is an award winning novelist whose previous novel, The Last Collection, was translated into five languages. She is a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society and taught creative writing in the MFA program of Goddard College, and at Ithaca College. She lives in upstate New York.