If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful fo….

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just….

Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been filtered….

I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids who want to be writers but who ….

With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading ….

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are m….

Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, o….

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meanin….

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required….

I'd like to ask Eleanor Roosevelt what she regrets most, because I think that might reveal something that I didn't catch on to while I was writing my….

I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, ….

A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to the extent that's poss….

Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you fin….