The Dark Side of Biographical Fiction

What we give up when we make “authenticity” a top priority

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Mystery and crime-fiction lovers: Have you ever read a Mary Francis novel? No? Well, have you ever read a Dick Francis novel. If you answered “yes” to the second question, then you most likely should have said “yes” to the first. Thereby hangs a tale — a cautionary tale about the prominence that…