Questions Answered by
Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy's talks and personal appearances were always popular, usually
being composed of a reading from one of the books, a number of anecdotes
from her research trips and a question and answer session, but with an
ever growing army of fans all over the world there were many who never
got the chance to hear her speak or answer their questions. I conceived
these pages in an attempt to capture something of the atmosphere of one
of these talks. By inviting questions from the visitors to the site and
also providing some of the "standard" answers that often came
up, I tried to give readers something of the insight into Dorothy's writing
and ideas that they would have got from attending a talk in person.
She enjoyed seeing the questions and I was always interested to see how
she would answer them - usually in a humourous and somewhat elliptical
way that was designed to make the reader think their way through to the
correct answer rather than simply providing it as a stated fact.
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