Although I had met Mr. Unsworth and heard him speak at the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, I had known him long before as a historical novelist who changed the way I thought about history and fiction.
Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
The fact that so many gamers do know something about Da Vinci from the games, which incorporated real history and historical figures into its fiction, is a plus for Starz moving forward if they chose to go the Spartacus route with the second season and unleash interactive entertainment.
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He has produced works on history and folklore as well as science fiction.
Mr. Achebe wrote his early fiction in the 1950s and 1960s at a hopeful time in African history, when waves of independence inspired young writers to celebrate and perhaps romanticize the sunnier aspects of life on the continent.
Her course dedicates each of its 13 weeks to discussing and drawing lessons from a work of fiction, biography, autobiography, or history.
"It is historical fiction -- a noble genre going back to Shakespeare and well before -- not history, " he said.
Each new episode will unlock new content about the people, places and inventions in real-time during the broadcast, allowing fans to further explore the history behind the fiction.
The U.K. has avoided the misery suffered in parts of the euro zone, but five years into the crisis it is looking as though tough decisions are being avoided by a political elite happy to hide behind the convenient fiction that a slump caused by the biggest credit and housing bubble in the country's history is mainly cyclical.
Talk of witnesses disappearing and plots hatched in secret may sound like the stuff of fiction but Kenyans have been burdened with a history of impunity that reformers are now trying to address.
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