Anna Lee Huber: On Escapism and Historical Fiction
Award-winning author Anna Lee Huber discusses the particular pain of writing during the 2020 lockdown and how she views historical fiction as a form of escape.
Author:
Apr 7, 2021
Anna Lee Huber is the Daphne Award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries and the Verity Kent Mysteries. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She currently resides with her family and is hard at work on her next novel.
Anna Lee Huber
Photo credit Shanon Aycock
In this post, Huber discusses the particular pain of writing during the 2020 lockdown, how she views historical fiction as a form of escape, and more!
Erika Robuck: On Writing Historical Women
Bestselling author Erika Robuck explains what it takes to write historical fiction and how she feels a connection with the character in her latest novel, The Invisible Woman.
Author:
Receive Me Falling,
The House of Hawthorne. She is a contributor to the anthology
Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion and to the Writer’s Digest essay collection,
Author in Progress. In 2014, Robuck was named Annapolis’ Author of the Year, and she resides there with her husband and three sons.
Erika Robuck
Photo Credit Catsh Photography
In this post, Robuck explains what it takes to write historical fiction, how she feels a connection with the character in her latest novel,
PIH connects patients with housing support during pandemic
Posted on Feb 3, 2021 Activists and tenants protest evictions in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood before the COVID-19 pandemic. In many parts of the country, COVID-19 has only exacerbated the ongoing eviction crisis for poor and working class people.
Photo by Zack DeClerck / PIH.
A bus stop. A park bench. A subway car. For the unhoused, shelter is found in many places but safety remains elusive.
“The lives of homeless people are incredibly public,” says Dr. Evan Lyon, a senior technical advisor with PIH’s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit. “To be homeless means you’re circulating a lot. You have to go from this place to that place. Maybe panhandle, maybe go to the library, maybe sleep on a train overnight.”