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Home Author Archive For Librarians Authors: Get Included Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore Dear Reader, We're history professors, and one of the things we most love about our work is solving the puzzles of the past by reading very old documents: newspapers, diaries, court records, even love letters. Our novel, BLINDSPOT, gives readers the chance to be historians, too. Set in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, BLINDSPOT interleaves real documents, like clippings from the Boston Gazette, with fictional ones: the memoirs of Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter escaped from debtor's prison; and the letters of Fanny Easton, a fallen woman who disguises herself as a boy to become Jameson's apprentice. A history of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary time, Blindspot's also an affectionate send-up of eighteenth-century fiction, mixing the romping, bawdy, pre-modern sensibility of Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin with the modern passion for the past that inspires readers of A.S. Byatt, E. L. Doctorow, and Jeanette Winterson. For more about BLINDSPOT, visit our website, www.blindspotthenovel.com. Our very best, Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore TOP OF PAGE BACK TO MAIN PAGE © 2005 by AuthorBuzz