Writing History

October 18, 2014

Laila Lalami recently wrote about “How History Becomes Story,” but writing an interesting and compelling history book sans fiction has its own challenges. Thankfully S.C. Gwynne offers some tips in a piece for the History News Network, including the hard-hitting reminder that “it is your job to force your facts into narrative form.”

is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York and every so often writes things at kaulielewis.wordpress.com.