Why Choose Fiction Over Biography?

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In an interview with the DIY MFA podcast, Leslie Johansen Nack discusses her novel, The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies, a historical fiction novel about Marion Davies and the burgeoning Hollywood scene in the 1920s. Nack shares:

  • Why she leaned into fiction for this project as opposed to writing a biography
  • Her research process and how she chose which scenes to fictionalize
  • How she balanced writing about the public and private personas of her characters