by Mary | Apr 1, 2013 | DREAMERS OF THE DAY, Just for fun!
Reports are surfacing that Peter Dinklage, star of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, has begun negotiations to play T.E. Lawrence in the film adaptation of Mary Doria Russell’s novel Dreamers of the Day. Should the project go forward, this will be the...
by Mary | Jun 20, 2012 | DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY
Summer in the Russell household. Hot weather. Baseball on the flat-screen. Dachshund sleeping, belly up, on the sofa. Around the 7th inning, I reach for the iPod and check my email. Last night there were five messages… Yes. Uh-huh. Okay… And then, while I...
by Mary | Jan 22, 2012 | DREAMERS OF THE DAY, Writer Tech
Yesterday an email came in asking me a technical question about writing historical fiction about a real person. “My subject wrote an autobiography in the 1940s…. How does one handle first-person material without plagiarizing? If your subject recounts a...
by Mary | Sep 13, 2011 | A THREAD OF GRACE, DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY, THE SPARROW, What I'm working on now.
“Shakespeare in Love” is one of my favorite movies. The screenplay is funny and clever and exciting and moving. The casting was perfect and the acting is grand. The costumes are almost distractingly gorgeous, especially when you watch in high def. Even the...
by Mary | Aug 10, 2011 | DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY
It’s hard for us to imagine how poor dental health was until recently. Michael Korda’s new biography of Lawrence of Arabia (Hero) gives a startling example. T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the Royal Air Force when he was 32, shortly after the 1921 Cairo Peace...
by Mary | May 11, 2011 | DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY
While researching Dreamers of the Day, I came across a remark by T.E. Lawrence lamenting the fact that his fame was like a tin can tied to his tail. No matter how fast or far he ran, reporters and his reputation always caught up with him. “They’ll rattle...
