2009 Seminar- Session 1:  Geraldine Brooks, Peter Ho Davies, Eric Foner, Allan Gurganus, Ursula Hegi, Tony Horwitz, Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore, Megan Marshall, Peter Matthiessen, Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Patricia O'Toole, Barry Unsworth, Gore Vidal, and John Wray

2009 Seminar- Session 2: Calvin Baker, Russell Banks, Andrea Barrett, Madison Smartt Bell, Alan Cheuse, Elizabeth Gaffney, Francisco Goldman, Samantha Hunt, William Kennedy, Thomas Mallon, Valerie Martin, Anchee Min, Mary Morris, David Nasaw, Marilynne Robinson, John Burnham Schwartz, and Barry Unsworth.

Writers' Workshops:  Alan Cheuse, Billy Collins, Edward Hower and Alison Lurie, Mary Morris, Bich Minh Nguyen, Patricia O'Toole, Timothy Seldes, Porter Shreve, and Dara Wier

The 27th Annual Key West Literary Seminar:  HISTORICAL FICTION and The Search for Truth.  "The Past Is Never Dead.  It's Not Even Past"  William Faulkner

Session 1:  January 8 - 11, 2009; Workshop Program January 12 - 15, 2009; Session 2:  January 15 - 18, 2009

For centuries, writers of fiction have employed historical events, people, and settings to create dazzling literary landscapes--narratives fraught with possibility, improbability, and inventive delight.  Join us in 2009 as we bring together world-renowned writers of historical fiction and noted historians to talk about their journeys into the past (real and imagined) and to explore and share their many ways of knowing and understanding what has come before.