[Kallisto Gaia Press; 2025] In the 1970’s, a clutch of American writers began to use real life public figures as characters in their novels. Harry Houdini and J.P Morgan featured in E.L Doctorow’s Ragtime, Warren Harding and the Harlem Renaissance writers were amongst the characters in Ishamael Reed’s, Mumbo Jumbo. And then there was Robert Coover’s The Public Burning, narrated by Richard Nixon and mysteriously moved from bookshelves after dipping its toes in the bestseller list.