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1906 (novel)
''1906'' is a 2004 American fictional historical novel written by James Dalessandro.〔〔 With a 38-page outline and six finished chapters, he pitched it around Hollywood in 1998 for a film by the same name, based upon events surrounding the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.〔〔
==Background==
When Dalessandro was researching ''1906'' as a prequel to his 1993 historical mystery novel ''Bohemian Heart'', his manager urged him to write a detailed film treatment based upon that research. The treatment was quickly sold to Warner Bros. After he had completed three drafts of a screenplay for Warners, he turned his attention to writing the novel.〔〔〔
Dalessandro grants his book was partially inspired by a 1989 non-fiction work by Gladys Hansen,〔 curator of the Museum of the City of San Francisco. When looking for research materials in 1996, he found ''Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906'' in a bookstore. He also explained use of meticulous personal research. Book scenes with people lying in shock in Golden Gate Park after the quake while surrounded by their possessions was inspired by fact. Enrico Caruso was found wandering in the park, having slept the night there after the Palace Hotel was destroyed. Dalessandro granted a lot of research but use of imagination as well. The novel's depictions were pieced together from letters and observations. In reflecting on how some persons took bathtubs out of their damaged homes, placed them on roller skates, and then filed the tubs with possessions, he noted that the displaced persons would save what was valuable to them... their favorite skillet, grandfather clocks, and pets. When asked to describe 1906 San Francisco, Dalessandro offered that it was "Paris and part Dodge City",〔 expanding that at the time the city "was urbane and sophisticated"〔 while at the same time being The Barbary Coast and fistfights. In handling the then-existing corruption and investigations in San Francisco, he condensed actual situations that had developed over many months into a shorter timespan and with a changing of names. Dalessandro also notes that his researches found the claimed death toll of 478 persons killed by the quake and fire, held as an official count for over 100 years, to be inaccurate. In 2005 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors granted a petition from he and Hansen, and raised the count to over 3,000.
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