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Laurie Halse Anderson: My characters are similar to myself at the core

Often, there are some details that Anderson will pull from her own experience that she’ll ‘hide’ in a character in a contemporary novel. But historical novels are a little bit different. However, even in historical novels the characters she creates in books, including Chains and Fever 1793, are similar to herself at the core. 

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