Interviewer Debra Webb of ThrillerWriters.org posed two seemingly innocuous questions to author Hamilton Wende regarding the research he did for his latest novel, House of War. The answers she received blew her away - they were almost as thrilling as reading the book!
My first question, for which I absolutely had to have the answer, was how did you come to select the subject of Alexander the Great for this story? But then I could not know that answer without including another question. Had you spent a great deal of time intrigued by the history behind your subject before launching into the actual research for the novel?
I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the answer and let me say, before you read on, this is an absolutely amazing answer…no, not an answer, this is an amazing story of its own.
“I was born in Buffalo NY in 1961 and lived there for the first five years of my life until my parents got divorced and my mother remarried my wonderful stepfather and we came to live in Johannesburg South Africa. Sadly my father died when I was 13 but I have remained in pretty close contact with my uncles and aunts and cousins in the States. I went to the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg during the height of apartheid and left South Africa in 1985 while the country was under apartheid and came to live in New York - by way of a year’s detour to teach English in Japan!”
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