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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
Author Insight
Why do I Write: Historical Fiction??
Kathy Meis, the Queen of Bublish, requested that we all create bubbles explaining why we write. Here is a short explanation of the the reasons I write historical fiction. First of all, I do this because I LOVED reading this kind of story myself as a young girl. Of course, I read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. (I finished the last one in 3rd grade, and my teacher told my mother that I cried all day when I did this because there were no more to read.) I read Johnny Tremain, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Sherwood Ring, and many many other stories that let me experience history in a much more engaging manner than, say, a textbook. Years later, I realized I wanted to write stories that would do the same thing for readers, young and old!
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
Without Major General Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, there would be no United States. It is really as simple as that. I wrote this story to give young readers a better idea of who he was and what he did for America.
Lafayette toured the United States in 1824-25 as the Guest of the Nation (literally: the local governments of the cities and towns he visited paid all his expenses on the trip). He traveled over six thousand miles during the thirteen months of his journey, and he was mobbed by admirers everywhere he went. Although he was in his late sixties when he visited the United States, all accounts show that age had not diminished the power of Lafayette’s excellent mind, nor his high spirits.
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