Historical Fiction & Original Sources: What Happens Next?
Adults
Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Chestertown Library Inc. Building
@ Chestertown
Researching history in a digital age, award-winning author Nancy Taylor Robson wrote A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams in large part based on what she discovered in the collected archive of letters Abigail and John Adams exchanged during their lives. Join Nancy for a talk exploring questions facing any modern author whose writing draws from history: Do original sources matter anymore? What’s true and what’s next?
Your questions about the process of researching and writing historical fiction are welcome at this interactive author talk.
Adults (age 18+)
About Nancy Taylor Robson
Nancy Taylor Robson grew up sailing and building boats with her father on the Chesapeake Bay. She holds a degree in history from the University of Maryland and is one of the first women in the country to earn her US Coast Guard license to run coastal tugboats. Robson is the author of four books: her memoir, Woman in The Wheelhouse; the award-winning coming of age novel, Course of the Waterman; A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, a Modern Love Story; and OK Now What? A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters, which she wrote with Sue Collins, RN. A longtime freelance writer, her work – features, profiles, essays, travel, maritime analysis, boats, gardening, environment and ecology – has appeared in Yachting, House Beautiful, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, Workboat, The Christian Science Monitor, Southern Living, Woodenboat, Coastal Living and more.