Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Biographical Fiction"

A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
The Glassmaker
It Girl
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Becoming Madam Secretary
The Venice Sketchbook
The Instrumentalist
Harlem Rhapsody
The Mitford Affair
Finding Margaret Fuller
Her Hidden Genius
The Cardinal
The Original
Fonseca
By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
Jackie
Diva
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
Jacqueline in Paris
Peggy
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
My Name Is Ona Judge
The Bohemians
A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
The Woman With the Cure
The Mad Girls of New York (A Nellie Bly Novel, #1)
The Painter's Daughters
The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
Mrs Van Gogh
The Lindbergh Nanny
Fifteen Wild Decembers
Follow Me to Africa
The President’s Wife
The War Nurse
The Unexpected Diva
The Last Assignment
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
Katharine, the Wright Sister
Jackie and Me
The Collector's Daughter
Scandalous Women
The Thirteenth Husband
A Right Worthy Woman
Strangers in the Night
The House of Lincoln
The American Adventuress
The Grand Design
A Pair of Wings
Leaving Coy's Hill
Half Life
Ace, Marvel, Spy
American Daughters
Picasso's Lovers
The Woman at the Wheel
Madwoman
Sister Mother Warrior
An Indiscreet Princess
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
Carolina Built
A Most Clever Girl
The Cape Doctor
Revelations
Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
Sonora
Boy
Can't We Be Friends
Ella
The General and Julia
After Anne
Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
The Brightest Star
The Great Mrs. Elias
Leonora in the Morning Light
Rhapsody
The Swan's Nest
Vincent's Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill
Starring Adele Astaire
Only Oona
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood – A Biographical Historical Epic of the 20th Century
The Blue Butterfly: A Novel of Marion Davies
Coco at the Ritz
Emily's House
The Great Passion
John Brown's Women
An Unofficial Marriage: A Novel about Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev
The Rebel Nun
There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.
Noelle Oxenhandler, The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire

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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

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