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Readers' Corner - Featured Genre
Featured Genre:profiles of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln

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)

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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)

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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)

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Web Sites

Overbooked: A Resource For Readers
www.overbooked.org/booklists/lit/biofic.html

Wikipedia: Category: Biographical Novels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biographical_novels

Novelist database on GALILEO
www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zknl

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