“The importance of walking in the footsteps of those characters, that’s a lesson I learned from my father,” he said. “That changed my whole life.”ĭuring his visit to the library next month, Shaara is expected to discuss how important research is to representing historical characters with accuracy and authenticity. We think you’re a writer, here’s a contract,” Sharra said. “The phone call I got back was, ‘We don’t care if it’s a movie. While Shaara was working on the first stages of research and writing, he was also representing his father’s estate with the publisher Random House in New York and mentioned he was writing a prequel to ‘ The Killer Angels.’ The publisher asked to see the manuscript. So, that’s why I wasn’t really afraid tackling this,” he said. “Whatever story I come up with, if it’s lousy and we’re not going to use it, it goes in the trash. Shaara says he had no fear or intimidation about approaching ‘ Gods and Generals’ as his first novel. He explained how Turner wanted to make more movies about the Civil War era, both before and after the Battle of Gettysburg. “So, he didn’t live to see the fact that the movie made his book a number one bestseller.” My father’s book is the basis for the movie ‘ Gettysburg,’ the Ted Turner film, but my father had passed away five years before the film came out,” Shaara said. “I had never written anything before – that’s not false modesty, I was a businessman down in Florida.
The 2022 Forsyth Reads Together book selection, ‘ Gods and Generals,’ is the prequel to ‘ The Killer Angels,’ the 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction written by Jeff Shaara’s father, Michael Shaara.In an interview for the library’s podcast, the author explained how he came to write the prequel to his father’s only work of historical fiction. Jeff Shaara, author of ' Gods and Generals', will visit Forsyth County to speak and sign new books at Forsyth Conference Center at 7 p.m., Monday, March 7.Īn Evening with Jeff Shaara is one of several events hosted by the Forsyth County Public Library as part of Forsyth Reads Together, a community reading program sponsored by Forsyth County Public Library, FCPL Friends and Advocates, and the Forsyth County Arts Alliance at the Forsyth County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the North Georgia Community Foundation.Īdmission to the event is free, advance registration is required and residents can do that on the library’s website at Launched in 2008 to encourage literacy and foster community togetherness, Forsyth Reads Together has brought many big-name authors to Forsyth County over the years including Rick Bragg, Kathryn Stockett, Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire and Martha Hall Kelly.
0 kommentar(er)
