What is the relationship between history and literature?

Denise: What is the relationship between history and literature?
What is the relationship to history and literature? Is one subordinate to the other? Does knowledge of history make a story more powerful, more real? Does history create literature and literature create history?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Will
The answer to both questions is, “YES.” History creates literature, and sometimes literature creates history.

Answer by not a top con & proud
History is a type of literature.