I received a rather interesting message in response to my last book review for “The Painted Girls” by Cathy Marie Buchanan. The sender sent me a blog post about forgeries of famous artworks at various art institutes. This particular post was about how Edgar Degas may not have been the true artist behind “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” the statue that was modeled after the main heroine in “The Painted Girls.”
Off the Shelves: How much real history is vital to historical fiction?