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.
Learning that Ben Franklin was a slave owner was shocking to Anderson, and she dug deep into primary source research to learn more while writing the Seeds of America trilogy.
