Author Archive: Carrie Callaghan

Looking Back to Look Forward: Or, Why We Read Historical Fiction

By Carrie Callaghan This is a true story. In the winter of 1938, before Hitler invaded anything, Milly Bennett sat in a room in New Jersey and looked out the window. Seven or eight children dressed warmly laughed and pulled their sleds in the snow. She typed, “I have looked into the future and it […]