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Letters from a French Hospital

Letters from a French Hospital

In October 1914, two-and-a-half months after Germany launched WWI in Europe, Dr. Mary M. Crawford, a graduate of Cornell University (’04) and Cornell Medical College (’07), set sail for France—one of six American surgeons...

April 29, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz American Ambulance Hospital, Dr. Mary Crawford, hospitals, WWI medicine, Zeppelins 0 Comments
In Their Words

In Their Words

For anything I’ve ever written, be it fiction or non-fiction, my favorite research is always sifting through primary sources. There is something about reading materials that are unfiltered by someone else’s editorial judgment, in...

February 16, 2022 Evelyn Herwitz American Fund for French Wounded, primary sources, research 0 Comments
On Creating a Voice

On Creating a Voice

Of the many lessons learned over seven years of writing Line of Flight, one of the most challenging was figuring out the voice of my narrator, Simone Levitsky. I knew in my gut that I needed to tell the story from her point of view, and I wrote...

November 22, 2021 Evelyn Herwitz character development, point of view, stylistic choices 0 Comments
In the Trenches

In the Trenches

You can travel the world on the internet, but you can only go so far. About nine months into writing the first draft of my WWI novel, including a 20,000-word false start, I realized that I needed to see and feel the landscapes that existed only...

November 12, 2021 Evelyn Herwitz HWK, Le Linge, research, Vosges Mountains, WWI Battlefields 0 Comments
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