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Boston Roots
October 24, 2009
Kathleen Kent writer
John Pipkin writer
Megan Marshall writer
Jill Lepore associate professor, history, Boston University
Jane Kamensky professor, history, Brandeis

Three writers share the stories behind their riveting historical novels set in and around Boston.

Kathleen Kent's debut novel, The Heretic's Daughter, is based on the life of her ancestor who was hanged as a witch in Salem in 1692. Blindspot, by historians Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, is a bawdy historical romance set in pre-revolutionary Boston featuring a well-born lady who disguises herself as a painter's boy apprentice. John Pipkin's Woodsburner tells of a little-known incendiary event in the life of Henry David Thoreau. Hosted by Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism.

Sponsored by Hachette Book Group.

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Image of The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel
Author: Kathleen Kent
Publisher: Back Bay Books (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Image of Woodsburner: A Novel
Author: John Pipkin
Publisher: Nan A. Talese (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages
Image of The Reparation
Author: John Pipkin
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 116 pages
Image of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Author: Megan Marshall
Publisher: Mariner Books (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 624 pages
Image of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Image of A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Image of Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 176 pages
Image of Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise (Thorndike Press Lare Print Reviewers' Choice)
Author: Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 811 pages
Image of Blindspot: A Novel
Author: Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 544 pages
Image of The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse
Author: Jane Kamensky
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 464 pages
Image of Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
Author: Jane Kamensky
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States Series ))
Author: Jane Kamensky
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 160 pages
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