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Lawrence Reid Bechtel
Lawrence Reid Bechtel is a novelist and sculptor with a special interest in early American history, including the Federal Era following the Revolutionary War. His extensive reading...view moreLawrence Reid Bechtel is a novelist and sculptor with a special interest in early American history, including the Federal Era following the Revolutionary War. His extensive reading about Thomas Jefferson led him to a 19th century image of Isaac Granger, a slave of Jefferson. This image, and Isaac's brief memoir---dictated to a Charles Campbell---so fascinated Bechtel that he did a full-blown portrait bust of Isaac based on that image. But that was not enough. He had a desire to write out Isaac's story, or imagine his story in fiction. One part of Bechtel said that he had no business writing the story about Isaac. But another part encouraged him to try anyway. According to Bechtel, that is when "Isaac took hold" of him. The Tinsmith's Apprentice trilogy is the result.view less