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From: Queen's Quarterly
Date: 20010322
Author:KAY, GUY GAVRIEL

Daniel Defoe, pioneer of the English language novel, loved to create fascinating characters and to experience their worlds first-hand - leaving his titillated readers wondering whether the "memoirs" published under various pseudonyms were fantasy or real life. But since Defoe's time, writers of literature have blurred the boundary between fact and fiction much farther. And this has gone beyond simply using real historical figures as set dressing for a work of fiction. Many of our best fiction writers now feel it is their right not only to take real individuals and put words in ...

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