Henry McLaughlin, 2009 winner of Christian Writers Guild’s Operation First Novel, believes his college major in American History helped him accurately reflect an 1870s man in his novel Journey to Riverbend (Tyndale). “Knowing the culture and the history gave me clues about how he would think, how he would see himself and others. I wrote his biography, interviewed him, did a character sketch and even ran him through Myers-Briggs.”
