Pulitzer-winning science writer Richard Rhodes gave a keynote at this year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb had this to say about what he calls verity: "It’s actually more challenging to write than fiction, because it adds to all the challenges of writing fiction a further challenge of building the elements of the real world. Elements with external reference. Fiction you can just make up."
August 5, 2012