Trish
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Jennifer Chiaverini:
In a recent New Yorker review of Colson Whitehead's new novel The Underground Railroad, reviewer Kathryn Schultz writes that quilts used as a means of communication was a notion that arose in the 1980's, "without any evident basis." Did your research on this period suggest a simiiar conclusion?
Jennifer Chiaverini
I haven't read the review so I can't comment on it, but as I've written elsewhere and emphatically, most historians agree that there never was nor could have been one "quilt code" used throughout the South to guide slaves along the Underground Railroad.
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Diane
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Jennifer Chiaverini:
I am almost finished with Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth [http://jenniferchiaverini.com/books/fates-and-traitors] and what a fascinating history of this man, John Wilkes Booth. Having read your Elm Creek Series and ..well, all of your books!...How do you gauge to use true history and information to make it more readable?
JoAnne
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Jennifer Chiaverini:
Has your Elm Creek Quilts series ended with the Giving Quilt or will we see more books?
Jackie
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Jennifer Chiaverini:
Hi Jennifer, I have read all of your books and loved each and every one of them. I just finished "The Spy Mistress" and absolutely loved the book. I wanted to know: Why have you written your recent books about the civil War period. Is it something you have always been interested in? I am sorry you are not planning to write anymore Elm Quilt novels. I will miss all the characters. Thank you, Jackie Hinni
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