Novelist Erica Wagner - Washington Roebling and the Art of Life Writing
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Erica Wagner discusses her unique approach to writing about Washington Roebling through both biography and historical fiction.
Erica Wagner may be the first ever author to write both a landmark biography and a historial novel about the same person. The engineer Washington Roebling took up residence in her head when she was sixteen years old and crossed the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time; her 2017 book Chief Engineer was a cradle-to-the-grave biography giving us the facts of his life, and her new novel Wash boldly imagines his interior life, moving freely across time, space and memory to replicate the experience of selfhood. In this episode of the podcast, she shares her insights into the mind of an extraordinary man and the art of life writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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