A Writer Who Speaks for the Dead

You have to relish a writer who describes Benjamin Franklin as an 18th-century Groucho Marx. Lucia St. Clair Robson is not only one of America’s finest historical novelists, but she also has verve. Her first book, Ride the Wind (1982), a fictional account of the Indian captive Cynthia Ann Parker, won the Golden Spur Award from Western Writers of America. Since then, Lucia has penned another six novels, including her latest, Ghost Warrior: Lozen of the Apaches (reviewed on page 59), which wa