Ask the Author: Marianne Rutter
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Marianne Rutter
The best thing about being a writer, for me, is similar to one of the best things about being a reader. You immerse yourself in the universe of a story which has captured your imagination. The advantage of being a writer of that story is that you can expand the universe, embellish it with people and details that enlarge the story's trajectory and make it more appealing.
Marianne Rutter
I have an idea for a prequel to Home Elsewhere that I'm thinking about as my next book.
Marianne Rutter
My father was a POW during World War II. When I learned that his story -- that of Italian soldiers captured during the war and brought to the United States -- remained largely untold, I wanted to put his experience into that larger historical context. The book gave me a context for talking about this largely untold chapter of the most written about war in history. Telling the story as fiction gave me the freedom to create my characters beyond the real people I knew and loved. Telling it as history gave me the discipline to make the story plausible within the time frame of the 1940s.
Marianne Rutter
My parents' story was the inspiration for Home Elsewhere. I think the best ideas for writing come from a writer's personal experience.
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