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…

- Russell Freedman

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

- Russell Freedman

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 …

- Russell Freedman

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…

- Russell Freedman

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, …

- Russell Freedman

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

- Russell Freedman

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 …

- Russell Freedman

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…

- Russell Freedman

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…

- Russell Freedman