Bethany Layne

This is the introduction to my book of interviews with biographical novelists from across the globe. Unlike Truthful Fictions, which contained only my interviews, many other scholars interviewed prominent biographical novelists for this book. My plan is to submit the book to my editor by early February. If you spot any errors or have any suggestions for improvement, please let me know. I still need to write a conclusion. For your benefit, here is the table of contents:

Conversations with Biographical Novelists:
Truthful Fictions across the Globe
Edited by Michael Lackey

Table of Contents

Kevin Barry, interviewed by Stuart Kane: Positive Contamination in the Biographical Novel

Laurent Binet, interviewed by Monica Latham: Reflections on Truth, Veracity, Fictionalization, and Falsification

Javier Cercas, interviewed by Virginia Rademacher: Resisting the “dictatorship of the present” in the Biographical Novel

Barbara Chase-Riboud, interviewed by Melanie Masterton Sherazi: Sally Hemings’ Staircase: On Biofiction’s Afterlives

Emma Donoghue, interviewed by Michael Lackey: Voicing the Nobodies in the Biographical Novel

David Ebershoff, interviewed by Michael Lackey: The Biographical Novel as Life Art

Hannah Kent, interviewed by Kelly Gardiner: Fictions of Women

David Lodge, interviewed by Bethany Layne: The Bionovel as a Hybrid Genre

Colum McCann, interviewed by Michael Lackey: Contested Realities in the Biographical Novel

Anchee Min, interviewed by Michael Lackey: The Biographical Novelist as Cultural Diagnostician

Rosa Montero, interviewed by Virginia Rademacher: Speculative Subjectivities and the Biofictional Surge

Stephanus Muller, interviewed by Willemien Froneman: Stitching up the Auto/Biographical Seam

Sabina Murray, interviewed by Michael Lackey: Complex Psychologies in the Biographical Novel

Nuala O’Connor, interviewed by Julie A. Eckerle: The Slant Truth of the Biographical Novel

Susan Sellers, interviewed by Bethany Layne: Postmodernism and the Biographical Novel

Colm Tóibín, interviewed by Bethany Layne: The Anchored Imagination of the Biographical Novel

Olga Tokarczuk, interviewed by Robert Kusek and Wojciech Szymański: I Believe in the Novel

Chika Unigwe, interviewed by Michael Lackey: Biographical Fiction and the Creation of Possible Lives