Millicent Dillon
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Harry Gold: A Novel
Millicent Dillon
An innovative bio-fiction based on the life of Soviet spy Harry Gold that brilliantly breaks new ground between fiction and biography.
This is the story about a spy. And a spy, by definition, lies. So how to write the life of a spy? Eschewing the confines of traditional biography and inverting the glamour of espionage, acclaimed biographer Millicent Dillon blends fact and fiction to chronicle the human drama of Harry Gold, the American chemist who becomes a Soviet spy.
Dillon has researched Gold’s outer life thoroughly, as a biographer would. She has then…
