I&#39;m writing a book. I&#39;ve got the page numbers done.

Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?

The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what Victoria was to monarchs, Dickens to novelists, Burton to explorers, Robert E. Lee to generals, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse was to assholes.

And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists.

Written By Jeffrey Eugenides

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