A Sense of Place and Time: An Interview with Diane Bonavist
“Like many pre-pubescent Catholic girls in the early 1960s, I thought I had a ‘vocation,’ a calling to sisterhood. Well, I did, but it was sisterhood is power—feminism not the nunnery.”
“Like many pre-pubescent Catholic girls in the early 1960s, I thought I had a ‘vocation,’ a calling to sisterhood. Well, I did, but it was sisterhood is power—feminism not the nunnery.”
Donna Baier Stein talks with Diane Bonavist about her new book, The Silver Baron’s Wife, inspired by the life of Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor, as well as the challenges of wrestling with research, how to portray characters with depth, and the ways she approaches writing in different genres.
