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Stuart Blackburn

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Born in the US, first went to India in 1970 as a Peace Corps volunteer. PhD from Berkeley in 1980 on Indian folklore, taught at Berkeley, Dartmouth, Heidelberg, Humboldt (Berlin) and mostly at SOAS in London, where I moved in 1994. Now live in Hove, with my wife, on the south coast. I love historical fiction, not ancient stuff, mostly early to mid 20th century. Novels can bring history alive and help us to understand the past.

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My latest novel, 'Pieces of the Puzzle,' begins on Christmas morning 1941. Yes, two weeks after Pearl Harbor. It follows the intersecting lives of a survivor, a widow, a general, a Japanese spy, a Japanese-American family and an American expert in Japanese art. Most of the action is set in San Francisco, with a few scenes in New Hamshire and others in Tokyo. The main characters are trying to fit t Read more of this blog post »
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