Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather drafted a Nazi-era antisemitic law, is writing a novel on fascism
Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather wrote WWII-era laws that Jews from public spaces, will be writing a book on fascism.
Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. (photo credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)