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Geraldine Brooks on "Creative Leap" in Writing Historical Fiction
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1:37Now PlayingGeraldine Brooks: "I make up in the voids. I make up, where you can't know where the historical voices have either fallen silent or the people had no voice in the first place, like women who are not literate or enslaved people who are not allowed to become literate. And if you want to try and convey some kind of truth of their experience. You research as much as you can, but eventually you have to make a creative leap."
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