Blast from the Past: A SAPL Historical Fiction Crossword
Across
- 3. Forester’s Napoleonic Wars-era Navy officer
- 8. Recent winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award
- 9. Rushdie wrote "Midnight's Children" about a child born on the night of this country's Independence
- 10. "Hidden Figures" is about the integral work of three Black women at this acronymic organization
- 12. Kristin Hannah’s bird-named WW2 book
- 17. Author of the tale of adventuring trio, "The Three Musketeers"
- 18. Author of the long-running Kingsbridge series
- 19. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" home city
- 20. “Where the Crawdads Sing” writer
Down
- 1. Toni Morrison's 1988 novel set after the American Civil War, which also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 2. Yaa Gyasi's "Homegoing" is an intergenerational family saga originating in this African country
- 4. Chronologically complicated series about the romance between a Highland warrior and a British nurse
- 5. Home of Marquez and his centennial family saga
- 6. Alonso Quixano is also known as "The Man of" this region
- 7. Maybe the most famous wife of Henry VIII
- 11. "The Crucible" is about this city's witch trials
- 13. Author of "Kindred" the first sci fi novel written by a Black woman
- 14. This author wrote "Obasan" which is about the forced imprisonment of Japanese Canadians
- 15. "War and Peace" writer
- 16. Romeo and Juliet reside in this "fair" city
- 17. Flowery first name of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book set in 1960s LA