Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This recording is presented by Princeton Public Library.
Author Lindsay Marie Morris shares how family history can inspire compelling historical fiction and shares techniques for weaving research and archival exploration into broader historical contexts.
Every family has a story shaped by the tides of history. In this engaging lecture, explore how to mine your own family history for inspiration to craft compelling historical fiction. Drawing from her experience writing about Italians during World War II in the U.S. and Sicily, Lindsay Marie Morris will illustrate how personal anecdotes, cultural traditions, and geopolitical events intersect to create rich, authentic narratives. The presentation will take participants behind the scenes of the author’s first novel, "The Last Letter from Sicily," to demonstrate how personal stories can reveal universal themes of resilience, identity, and change, offering valuable insight into the creative process of historical fiction writing.
Key Topics:
* Researching your family history: Tips for interviews, archives, and records
* Building connections between personal stories and historical events
* Finding universal themes in individual experiences
* Balancing historical accuracy with creative storytelling.
From the presenter:
Lindsay Marie Morris is a Los Angeles-based novelist and journalist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Marquette University. A former Shape magazine editor with a passion for storytelling, Lindsay continues to write for various publications, including Forks Over Knives, for which she is a frequent contributor. Her work spans multiple topics, with a particular focus on travel, small business, health, wellness, and plant-based lifestyle. She is the author of The Last Letter from Sicily, published by Storm Publishing.
This event was recorded on October 14, 2025.
This recording is presented by Princeton Public Library.
Author Lindsay Marie Morris shares how family history can inspire compelling historical fiction and shares techniques for weaving research and archival exploration into broader historical contexts.
Every family has a story shaped by the tides of history. In this engaging lecture, explore how to mine your own family history for inspiration to craft compelling historical fiction. Drawing from her experience writing about Italians during World War II in the U.S. and Sicily, Lindsay Marie Morris will illustrate how personal anecdotes, cultural traditions, and geopolitical events intersect to create rich, authentic narratives. The presentation will take participants behind the scenes of the author’s first novel, "The Last Letter from Sicily," to demonstrate how personal stories can reveal universal themes of resilience, identity, and change, offering valuable insight into the creative process of historical fiction writing.
Key Topics:
* Researching your family history: Tips for interviews, archives, and records
* Building connections between personal stories and historical events
* Finding universal themes in individual experiences
* Balancing historical accuracy with creative storytelling.
From the presenter:
Lindsay Marie Morris is a Los Angeles-based novelist and journalist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Marquette University. A former Shape magazine editor with a passion for storytelling, Lindsay continues to write for various publications, including Forks Over Knives, for which she is a frequent contributor. Her work spans multiple topics, with a particular focus on travel, small business, health, wellness, and plant-based lifestyle. She is the author of The Last Letter from Sicily, published by Storm Publishing.
This event was recorded on October 14, 2025.
