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Profiles in Prose
Sometimes considered a sub-genre of historical fiction, biographical novels provide fictional and often highly imaginative accounts of the lives or activities of actual people. Or, real people may also appear as characters in mysteries, romances, fantasies and other novels. Biographical novels can offer unique insights into the everyday lives of famous or important people. The very best stories are from real life.
Real Lives Make Great Reads.
Profiles in Prose
Real People in Novels
Sometimes considered a sub-genre of historical fiction, biographical novels provide fictional and often highly imaginative accounts of the lives or activities of actual people. Or, real people may also appear as characters in mysteries, romances, fantasies and other novels. Biographical novels can offer unique insights into the everyday lives of famous or important people. The very best stories are from real life.Real Lives Make Great Reads.
History Comes Alive
| Blake, Michael | Marching to Valhalla | (George Armstrong Custer) |
| Brown, Rita Mae | Dolley | (Dolley Madison) |
| Clark, Mary Higgins | Mount Vernon Love Story | (George & Martha Washington) |
| Ethridge, Willie | Summer Thunder | (James Edward Oglethorpe) |
| George, Margaret | Memoirs of Cleopatra | (Cleopatra & Marcus Antonius) |
| Gingrich, Newt | Grant Comes East | (Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee) |
| Heidish, Marcy Moran | A Woman Called Moses | (Harriet Tubman) |
| Hicks, Robert | Widow of the South | (Carrie McGavock) |
| Holt, Victoria | My Enemy the Queen | (Elizabeth I) |
Famous and Infamous
| Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace | (Grace Marks) |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl With a Pearl Earring | (Johannes Vermeer) |
| Cunningham, Michael | The Hours | (Virginia Woolf) |
| Doctorow, E. L. | Billy Bathgate | (Dutch Schultz) |
| Follett, Ken | Pillars of Earth | (Thomas Becket) |
| Kostova, Elizabeth | The Historian | (Vlad III) |
| McCrumb, Sharyn | The Ballad of Frankie Silver | (Frankie Silver) |
| Parker, Robert | Gunman's Rhapsody | (Wyatt Earp) |
| Roth, Philip | The Plot Against America | (Charles Lindbergh & Franklin Delano Roosevelt) |
Prolific Authors
| McCullough, Colleen | |||
| Fortune's Favorites | (Gaius Marius) | ||
| The Grass Crown | (Gaius Marius) | ||
| The First Man in Rome | (Gaius Marius) | ||
| Caesar | (Julius Caesar) | ||
| Caesar's Women | (Julius Caesar) | ||
| October Horse | (Julius Caesar) | ||
| Stone, Irving | |||
| The Agony & the Ecstasy | (Michelangelo) | ||
| Greek Treasure | (Henry Schliemann) | ||
| The Origin | (Charles Darwin) | ||
| Depths of Glory | (Camille Pissarro) | ||
| Love is Eternal | (Mary Todd Lincoln) | ||
| Those Who Love | (John & Abigail Adams) | ||
| The President's Lady | (Rachel & Andrew Jackson) | ||
| Caldwell, Taylor | |||
| Dear & Glorious Physician | (Luke) | ||
| The Glory & the Lightning | (Aspasia & Pericles) | ||
| Great Lion of God | (Paul) | ||
| I, Judas | (Judas Iscariot) | ||
Web Sites
Overbooked: A Resource For Readers
www.overbooked.org/booklists/lit/biofic.htmlWikipedia: Category: Biographical Novels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biographical_novelsNovelist database on GALILEO
www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zknl