Biographical Fiction

The Mozart Girl

By Barbara Nickel - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart enjoys beautiful gowns, birthday gifts, and sweets as much as any 12-year-old girl, but she has an extraordinary ...Read Review

Graceland

By Bethan Roberts - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

From the moment she first holds him, after his twin brother is stillborn, Gladys Presley loves her son ferociously. This is a love ...Read Review

An Affair with Beauty – The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy: Romantic Illusions

By James Philip Head - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Before TV, color movies, and modern printers, Americans devoured magazines and newspapers. Talented illustrators provided eye-catching paintings and drawings for front pages and ...Read Review

The Dragon Lady

By Louisa Treger - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This novel is a blend of fact and fiction. Its central character is Lady Virginia Courtauld, called the Dragon Lady because of the ...Read Review

Catherine of Braganza

By Isabel Stilwell - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1640, after 60 years of domination by a succession of Spanish monarchs, the Portuguese overthrew their unwelcome masters and elected John, the 8th Duke ...Read Review

The Unlikely Occultist: A Biographical Novel of Alice A. Bailey

By Isobel Blackthorn - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In this biographical novel, 21st-century Australian librarian Heather Brown inherits the manuscript collection of a scholar working on the occult and learns of ...Read Review

Little Boy

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

How does one review the experimental novel of an author who celebrates his 100th birthday on March 24, 2019, yet continues to take chances with ...Read Review

The Quintland Sisters: A Novel

By Shelley Wood - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1934 Ontario, the world’s first identical quintuplets were born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, a poor French-Canadian farming family. These five tiny ...Read Review

Esther: The Extraordinary True Story of the First Fleet Girl Who Became First Lady of the Colony

By Jessica North - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

London, 1786: Esther, aged 16, Jewish, pregnant and in gaol for stealing 24 yards of black silk lace, awaits transportation on an eight-month journey to the ...Read Review

Looking for Garbo

By Jon James Miller - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

1939: Greta Garbo may be the Queen of the Silver Screen, but she is very private. Reporters looking for an elusive story track her ...Read Review