Many would argue that all fiction comes from lived experience but the traps and pitfalls around representing personal experience in fiction are legendary, particularly for first books which may be more autobiographical than the writer intended. Veteran of 14 books Laura Lippman and first timer Gary Bryson exchange notes with Charlotte Wood on the interplay between real life and life on the page.
LAURA LIPPMAN (INTERNATIONAL) LAURA LIPPMAN was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at the Baltimore Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about accidental P.I. Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Laura’s novels have won almost every prize given for crime fiction in the United States, including the Edgar, Anthony, Nero Wolfe and Agatha awards. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, the writer David Simon, who created hit the TV series The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street. Laura’s latest novel is Life Sentences. lauralippman.com
GARY BRYSON (LOCAL) GARY BRYSON is a journalist with Radio National, producing and presenting features and documentaries for the Encounter series. Prior to this, he was executive producer on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams. Turtle is his first novel.
CHARLOTTE WOOD (LOCAL) CHARLOTTE WOOD is editing an anthology of Australian writing on the theme of siblings for publication at the end of 2009. Her acclaimed novels are The Children, The Submerged Cathedral and Pieces of a Girl.
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