The Truth Behind the Lie(s)

In a crowded auditorium in Walla Walla, Washington’s Whitman College, a student raised his hand and asked Tim O’Brien why he wrote fiction about his war experiences.  O’Brien said, “To tell truths that I can’t tell in nonfiction.”  Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Pam Houston, Flannery O’Conner