Wendy asked Lawrence Wright:

How difficult was it for you to gather information for your book when the "private investigators" hired by the."church " or being considered a SP?

Lawrence Wright the goal of the private investigators was to intimidate my sources, so of course they were a problem. The harassment they deal out to former members is inexcusable. For me, it was more inept bordering on comic.

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Bryan asked Lawrence Wright:

Your non-fiction works have been enjoyable and practical for me in understanding places I have lived (Afghanistan, Egypt, and Texas). Your previous books have been primarily (entirely?) non-fiction. Have you had the idea for a long time that you would like to do a novel? Have you had characters or outlines of characters already developed that needed to be put into a story or did they come together with the plot?

Robban Fleege asked Lawrence Wright:

did you ever publish (post, article, paper) a summarized lessons from the Spanish flu? I think the book mentioned a tip about breathing through the nose...or was it breathing trough the mouth...?

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