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Facts Based Novels or Historical Fiction Historical fiction may center on historical or on fictional characters but usually represents an honest attempt based on considerable research (or at least serious reading) to tell a story set in the historical past as understood by the author's contemporaries. Historical fiction, unlike history is not constrained to cite its sources with footnotes in the text. * Fictionalized account of real events * Stories take place in a definite place in history * Something similar to the story could have happened. Often based on real people & events * Can include real facts and places * Very much like the real world - just at a different time in history * Teaches us about the past, how people lived * Much time spent on setting, plot and characters Red River by Lalita Tademy is based on the Colfax Massac re of 1873 Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard is based on the lynching of Michael Don ald in 1981 Beloved by Toni Morrison is based on the lif

Because i'm an avid first edition book collector, I thought a nice framed poster about books (and african american themed at that!) would compliment my library. So...I bid on a poster on eBay.com and won it. As I examined the poster...I see a reference to The Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library. I've heard this referenced before, but I never knew anything about the Schomburg Collection. So...I go to my favorite website...Wikipedia and viola! Arturo Alfonso Schomburg also known as Arthur Schomburg (January 24, 1874-June 8, 1938) born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was a historian, writer and activist, known as "The Father of Black History." Schomburg had amassed a world renowned collection which consisted of artworks, manuscripts, rare books, slave narratives and other remnants of Black history . So impressed was the New York Public Library with Schomburg's collection that the Carnegie Corporation purchased it from him for $10,000 to form the corners