Reyna Grande, author of “A Ballad of Love and Glory,” will join the L.A. Times Book Club on March 29.
What was it like switching back and forth between fact and fiction?
I really wanted it to be historically accurate. I didn’t want to take too many liberties with the story and risk having the reader question its authenticity. So I tried to stay true to the timeline, the way the events unfolded. You could Google anything I write in the book and you’ll see that it’s true. The war took place over two years, so that was my timeline, starting in March 1846 and until right after theYou’ll notice that the last chapter does not have a date on it; that was the only time when I did use creative license because nobody knows what happened to John Riley after he was released from prison.
In your opening letter to readers, you mention that not much is known about Riley’s personal life because parish records were destroyed in a fire, and all you knew about Ximena — a widowed healer and Riley’s eventual love interest — came from John Greenleaf Whittier’s “The Angels of Buena Vista.” How did you bring them to life?, that he had been in the British army before that, that he had a son. I knew when he enlisted in the U.S.
I fell in love with John Riley . A friend read the manuscript and said, “John Riley is too perfect, he needs flaws,” and I responded: “Can his flaw be that he’s perfect?”
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