I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.