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Elizabeth Farnsworth: Kansas Book Festival Author Panel with Theodore Wheeler

There Are No Non-Combatants: Elizabeth Farnsworth & Ted Wheeler on WWII Fiction, Journalism, and Place At the Kansas Book Festival panel “There Are No Non-Combatants,” moderator Sonia Zaki introduces journalists-turned-authors Elizabeth Farnsworth and Ted Wheeler and discusses their WWII-era novels. Farnsworth describes how a vivid vision led her to research German POWs in Kansas at the Kansas Historical Society and to write Last Light, about an Isabel Graham, a Kansas woman fluent in German who becomes an interpreter for wounded POWs at a fictional Army hospital near the Flint Hills, amid questions of identity, Nazism, music, and violence. Wheeler explains The War Begins in Paris, set in 1938 among American foreign correspondents, inspired by real journalist Jane Anderson who became a Nazi propagandist; he filters her story through a fictional Mennonite pacifist protagonist wrestling with moral uncertainty. Both authors compare research methods, the role of place and prairie light, and the challenges of blending fact, imagination, and trauma. Last Light is available on Amazon.com, Bookshop.org, and wherever books are sold. https://amzn.to/3Ys1MxI 00:00 Panel Welcome and Bios 03:13 Last Light Synopsis 04:02 The Vision Behind the Novel 08:05 Imagination and Childhood Freedom 11:51 War Begins in Paris Setup 12:50 Jane Anderson Research and Conflict 14:55 Reading Jane Anderson Profile 18:44 Place and Prairie in Last Light 26:21 Archives and Historical Research 29:17 Ted Wheeler Research Process 30:47 Researching Place and Light 32:42 Prairie Light and First Light 33:40 Journalism Versus Novel Writing 36:12 Mennonite Pacifism and Moral Plot 40:34 Interrogating World War II 42:19 POWs Music and Suspicion 45:10 Fiction as Human History 48:16 Audience Q&A Craft and Research 55:53 Trauma as Creative Engine 58:38 Closing Thanks and Wrap Up