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Margaret Verble

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Margaret Verble discusses her novel When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky. Margaret discusses how she weaves Cherokee narratives into her books and the importance of indigenous voices in literature. She shares how she used her childhood in Nashville as an inspiration for the setting of the book and the significant amount of research that is required for historical fiction.

Margaret Verble

26m 46s

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Margaret Verble discusses her novel When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky. Margaret discusses how she weaves Cherokee narratives into her books and the importance of indigenous voices in literature. She shares how she used her childhood in Nashville as an inspiration for the setting of the book and the significant amount of research that is required for historical fiction.

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