biographical fiction

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biographical fiction

The inner circle

2004
A novel that examines the impact on a young man's marriage after he begins work as an assistant to sexologist Alfred Kinsey in 1940, taking part in the doctor's research.

King Leopold's soliloquy

1970
Mark Twain's 1905 pamphlet, in the form of a monologue, detailing atrocities committed under the Belgian King's personal ownership of the Congo.

The other Boleyn girl

a novel
2007
Mary Boleyn comes to the court of King Henry VIII, where she falls for the dashing king, and begins to enjoy her growing role as unofficial queen, however, she soon realizes she is merely a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to turn towards her best friend and rival, her sister, Anne.

The memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots

2009
A fictional memoir of Mary Queen of Scots, documenting her reign over Scotland, her marriages, and her final days as a prisoner of her cousin Elizabeth I.

1929

2003
Presents a fictionalized account of the career of Bix Beiderbecke, a self-taught musician and composer who rose to fame in the 1920s, only to see it all end with the stock market crash of 1929 by which time Bix was in an asylum due to consumption of bootleg gin.

Pretty Boy

2003
A fictionalized account of the life of Pretty Boy Floyd, his exploits, loves, and antics.

HHhH

2012
A fictional account of the escape of Jozef Gab??k and Jan Kub? from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England where they are recruited by the British secret service to assassinate Nazi Reinhard Heydrich.

The old gringo

1997
A fictional account of what happened to American journalist Ambrose Bierce when he disappeared in Mexico during the civil war there.

The vanishing point

a story of Lavinia Fontana
2004
Vini, a talented young woman in sixteenth-century Italy, hoping to win the approval of her artist father, finds romance and adventure when she enlists the aid of an apprentice in her father's studio to steal materials for her so she can practice her art. Based on the life of Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana.

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