Ghosts Between the Lines: Historical Fiction and the Haunted Page

Novelist Rachel Kadish, current Fordham-NYPL Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, will discuss the power and challenges of historical fiction and the process through which she approaches history in her own work.

Rachel Kadish’s most recent novel, The Weight of Ink, was a National Jewish Book Award recipient and a USA Today bestseller. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Paris Review and on National Public Radio. She has been a fiction fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation), and the Bogliasco Foundation, and a spokesperson for Artists for Understanding, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts.