Mark Harris

I mean, what I got from...

Diane and Mike's kids was exactly what I asked to get, which was permission, consent and permission to make that consent public.

So beyond that.

I really tried very hard not to think.

what would they make of this?

What would they feel about this part of his life that I'm writing about?

Because I think that really would have been presumptuous of me to try to guess what Mike's kids would think of any given moment.

And

And also, I think it would have been ultimately damaging to the book.

I think that would have been really a problem.

So I tried quite hard to...

keep them out of my head except when I was writing about them directly.

And to this day, I don't know whether any of them have read the book or not.

And as curious as I might be to know that, I'm also okay with not knowing.

they share some of the same dna um how do you feel about those shows do you watch those shows um i haven't actually watched love story so i can't say anything specific about that but um in general i feel fine about those shows i don't think that historical fiction has

precisely the same obligation to reality as biography.

I mean, historical fiction is an area where you're taking real people and real events and you're trying to find a way to dramatize them in a way that will be compelling to readers or to viewers.

But I do think that there's a line, but, you know,

you can have someone in historical fiction say,

or do something that they didn't precisely say or do.