William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book is The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Does fiction require anonymity? And if an author chooses to draw heavily from their own life, and the lives of those they know and love, how should a reader judge ...