Based on a True Story: Dostoevsky’s Classic Novel
Inspiring ‘Crime and Punishment.’ Reviewing ‘The Sinner and the Saint’ by Kevin Birmingham
The advice every writer hears at one point or another? Write what you know. Whenever I hear those words I wonder, How do you explain murder stories?
Dostoevsky wrote a classic one. He published Crime and Punishment in serial form beginning in 1866. The effect was sensational. Nothing like it had appeared before, and the audience eagerly awaited each new …
