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"

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Harlem Rhapsody
The Mitford Affair
The Other Princess
Let's Call Her Barbie
Her Hidden Genius
Finding Margaret Fuller
By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
The Cardinal
The Woman With the Cure
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
Peggy
Diva
The President’s Wife
The Lindbergh Nanny
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
Jackie
Sonora
A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
The Mad Girls of New York (A Nellie Bly Novel, #1)
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
Jacqueline in Paris
The Painter's Daughters
The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
Katharine, the Wright Sister
The Bohemians
Half Life
Mrs Van Gogh
Follow Me to Africa
The War Nurse
The Brightest Star
The Last Assignment
A Pair of Wings
The Cape Doctor
Scandalous Women
American Daughters
My Name Is Ona Judge
The House of Lincoln
The Grand Design
Can't We Be Friends
Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
The American Adventuress
The Collector's Daughter
Ella
After Anne
Emily's House
Boy
Leonora in the Morning Light
The Great Passion
A Most Clever Girl
The Thirteenth Husband
Madwoman
Ace, Marvel, Spy
Strangers in the Night
Starring Adele Astaire
Jackie and Me
The General and Julia
The Great Mrs. Elias
The Blue Butterfly: A Novel of Marion Davies
Carolina Built
Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood
The Swan's Nest
A Right Worthy Woman
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
The Rebel Nun
The Woman at the Wheel
Love and Fury
Revelations
An Unofficial Marriage: A Novel about Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev
An Indiscreet Princess
Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
Only Oona
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
Sister Mother Warrior
Vincent's Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
Picasso's Lovers
Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill
Rhapsody
Leaving Coy's Hill
Bradley Steffens
It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well. ...more
Bradley Steffens, The Prisoner of Al Hakim

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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