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Parkman Prize--winner Jared Farmer reflects on writing the biography of a landform.

Publication: American Scholar
Publication Date: 22-JUN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Parkman Prize--winner Jared Farmer reflects on writing the biography of a landform.(Point of Departure)

Article Excerpt
A history book is less creative than a novel, for the novelist creates a new world. The historian, meanwhile, is restricted by this world--the extant sources, especially, but also the rules of the guild. However, just as a fugue or a sonata can be surprisingly creative and stunningly beautiful, an artful history book can be euphonically logical: it can play with the conventions even...

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