I’d always written, but when I got to college, I started to write things that I thought would be more prestigious-so, kind of depressing adult short stories-and it just sucked the fun out of writing for me. Then I graduated and went into journalism and felt like the reality was not quite what I wanted to do-it wasn’t making me happy in the way that I had hoped it would. History & Literature was sort of like the de facto journalism major, so that was how I ended up in that program. I had always thought that I was going to be a reporter. It was really just looking at history through the lens of how people create things, whether it’s books or stamps or quilts for their children how people process historical events in their lifetime and how those creations then go on to inform things that happen in the future or our own interpretations of how history took place. Like, a jacket or a car could be literature. The course that I took at Harvard, a program called History & Literature, is very broad-history is anything that’s ever happened, and literature is anything that anybody has ever created. Was it always your intent to write historical fantasy for young adults, or did you initially have another path in mind?
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