Balancing Truth and Fiction in Historical Fiction with Sam McGee

In this episode, host Landis Wade has a conversation with Sam McGee, about balancing truth and fiction in historical fiction, using Sam’s debut historical novel as a guide for the discussion.

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Sam McGee is an author, trial lawyer and fisherman from North Carolina. His first book, Sidelines and Bloodlines, is a college football memoir written with his referee father and sportswriter brother.

Cartledge Creek is his debut novel inspired by his family’s true Civil War story. As a teenager, Sam used to tell everyone who would listen that he would one day buy the old family homeplace back into the family. He and his wife Marci did so in 2006. That house is the site of much of what happens in Cartledge Creek.