Biographical Fiction

The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional and usually entertaining account of a person's life. This kind of novel concentrates on the experiences a person had during his lifetime, the people he met and the incidents which occurred are detailed and sometimes trimmings are done to give it the appearance of a novel. ...more

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Let's Call Her Barbie
The Mitford Affair
Harlem Rhapsody
Her Hidden Genius
Finding Margaret Fuller
The Magician
The Cardinal
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
Diva
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
The Woman With the Cure
Jackie
Loving Frank
The Personal Librarian
The Paris Wife
Circling the Sun
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
The Aviator's Wife
The Only Woman in the Room
The Other Einstein
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
The Frozen River
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
Becoming Mrs. Lewis
A Well-Behaved Woman
A Piece of the World
Diana Stevan
Outside, the sweet smell of freshly cut alfalfa hay was a welcome change from the odours of sweat and cheap cologne on the dance floor.
Diana Stevan, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

Margaret Kennedy
She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that don't suit her go out. Any details she wants to invent come in. She's saved the trouble of creating plot and characters, and she doesn't have to be accurate because it's only a novel, you know. ...more
Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

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