Contemporary historical fiction occupies virtually every point on the history–fiction spectrum: fictional stories of real-life people; narratives of real-life events experienced by fictional ...
Rebecca Steinitz
Rebecca Steinitz is a literacy consultant in Boston-area urban high schools. She writes regularly about books and sundry topics for The Boston Globe, The Women’s Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Millions, and other publications. She is the author of Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary, a relic of her previous life as a professor of 19th-century British literature. 
In Praise of MA (Middle-Aged) Fiction
Reading what we might call MA (Middle-Aged) fiction, it’s easy to see how YA (Young Adult) fiction has become so popular among not-so-young adults. In the face of characters burdened with troublesome ...