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Searching For Virginia Dare
Author Interview
What set you on the trail of Virginia Dare?
MH: I’d dimly heard of Virginia Dare in literature and history references after I moved to North Carolina, but I really had no idea of the weight and fascination the story would hold for me.
The invitation to explore Virginia’s story came in a letter one day from scholar, poet, and fiction writer Emily Herring Wilson, who is known for her work with women’s history and biography. She suggested I write an essay for an anthology about North Carolina women in history, and the name Virginia Dare came up.
I realized at once that I knew very little about Dare, and took that as a challenge.
Virginia dare biography books in order
Long story short, it turned into a book.
This book contains history, road trip, fiction, and memoir. Why did you decide to include all those things?
MH: I started with history, hit a wall, turned to fiction, then opened up to memoir.
It became a kind of natural process in my note-taking, and at one point, I