Making History by Stephen Fry Making History is a novel by Stephen Fry, born in Hampstead, London, on Saturday 24 August 1957 as the son of Alan and Marianne Fry. In addition to other books such as The Hippopotamus Fry, he also wrote some plays (e.g. Latin! in 1979), films and the musical Me & My Girl. He also worked as an actor in the popular BBC series Blackadder.Making History was first published in the UK in 1996 by Hutchinson. The book tells a fantasy-sci-fi time travel story about a student named Michael Young who wants to eliminate the Holocaust from the history books by preventing the birth of Adolf Hitler. The book itself is divided into two books (in the first book each chapter title begins with "Making-", in the second each chapter title ends with "-History"). The story begins in Michael Young's house in Cambridge. Michael is an aspiring history student who has just finished his doctoral thesis (he calls it Das Meisterwerk) on Hitler's roots. Since he is late for class and his girlfriend Jane took the Renault, he rushes to the university. There in his box he discovers a package that should be for Leo Zuckermann, he is willing to deliver it himself and knows it when the pages of his Meisterwerk are blown away by the wind and helps him collect them. They meet the same day in Leo Zuckermann's room. They separate and Michael goes to visit his girlfriend who is also studying at university but is studying biochemistry. He enters his laboratory to resolve the conflict they had the day before. The important thing about her visit is not their discussion, but the discovery of a pill she invented: a small orange pill that makes a man sterile. The meeting in Leo Zuckermann's room is a discussion of Michael's interest in Adolf Hitler and leads to Leo's desire to read a copy of Michael's doctoral thesis. The other copy of the Meisterwerk Michael had given to Angus Alexander Hugh Fraser-Stuart (his professor) to read. It turns out that Mr Fraser-Stuart calls his thesis "rubbish" and "untenable" because it is partly written like a novel (indeed extracts from the thesis are printed in the book Making History). After the disaster with Mr. Fraser -Stuart visits Zuckermann again who shows him a fascinating invention of his: a device with which one can look into the past.