Delving into the life of a real person for the purposes of fiction is a murky business.
Curtis Sittenfeld did it in Rodham, a reimagining of the life of Hillary Clinton that left some readers enthralled and others perplexed. It raised ethical questions that are not easy to answer. Was it okay to narrate, in the first-person, a life that belonged to someone else?
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