“In North Korea,” novelist ADAM JOHNSON has said, “I think the people know everything they are being told is a lie, but they have no idea what the truth may be.” This would not be the case if they had read Johnson’s remarkable The Orphan Master’s Son, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Johnson spent seven years researching and writing the novel and journeyed to North Korea to see the country with his own eyes. Using his fierce imagination, he did what only great fiction writers can do—brought to light fundamental truths of North Korean society that go far beyond any literal accumulation of facts, and indelibly humanized the people he wrote about. Join him for a talk about how he did it and what the experience was like.