Biographical Fiction

Argall

By William T. Vollmann - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

If you are on fire to read a 600-page literary historical novel in recreated Jacobean English, then Argall is for you. The additional 146 ...Read Review

The Jazz Bird

By Craig Holden - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/CrimeSaga

The Jazz Bird is an imaginative retelling of the true story of the murder of Imogene Remus by her husband George, a bootlegger. ...Read Review

The Royal Physician’s Visit

By Per Olov Enquist - By Tiina Nunnally (trans.) - Published 2001

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Biographical FictionLiterary

“On April 5, 1768, Johann Friedrich Struensee was appointed Royal Physician to King Christian VII of Denmark, and four years later he was executed.” So ...Read Review

George Washington, Frontiersman

By Zane Grey - Published 2001

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Biographical Fiction

Zane Grey, one of America’s foremost writers of western fiction, died in 1939. This book, a fictionalized narrative of George Washington’s early ...Read Review

The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid

By Bill Brooks - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

Whether psychopathic killer, misunderstood outlaw, or product of the Lincoln County, Nebraska range war (which pitted honest ranchers against corrupt ones), Henry McCarty ...Read Review

Treason

By David Nevin - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Aaron Burr is a man who thinks big, especially about himself. Always ready to grab the gold ring when it passes by, he ...Read Review

Gunman’s Rhapsody

By Robert B. Parker - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

Best known for his Spenser detective series, Robert Parker changes his focus from a private eye in contemporary Boston to a late 19th ...Read Review

Still She Haunts Me

By Katie Roiphe - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

The life of Rev. Charles Dodgson — shy Oxford mathematician, pioneer photographer and author Lewis Carroll — is studied in this novel of creeping obsession. ...Read Review

The Dry Danube

By Paul West - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Adolf Hitler narrates, ranting and raving, his own life story during the years prior to the First World War. In Vienna, trying to ...Read Review

Unafraid

By Francine Rivers - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirational

Francine Rivers concludes her five-volume Lineage of Grace series with the inspiring life of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. As with the previous ...Read Review