biographical fiction

Tells the early life of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes from his education at Ptolemy's Museum in Alexandria to his home in Syracuse, as he gains fame and fortune as a royal engineer.

Rev. Jonah Dove returns home to World War II-era Harlem, troubled by his history of passing as a white man in college, and finds his life colliding with that of Malcolm Little, a teenage hustler from Michigan who is destined to rename himself Malcolm X.

Francis Osbaldistone is banished to Scotland, where he meets Robert Roy MacGregor, and when he joins Rob Roy in his attempt to overthrow the English, he learns how to fight for what he believes in.

Presents a fictionalized account of the tumultuous marriage between artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as seen through the eyes of Frida's sister, Cristina.

Rudi Friemel, a soldier with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, is captured and eventually sent to Auschwitz where he petitions and is granted permission to marry his sweetheart Marga, the mother of his child.

A fictional account of the life of Esther, Queen of Persia. Orphaned at the age of ten, she crosses the Tigris to marry her cousin, who is well-established at court. She survives the intrigue of court life and wins the heart of the king and the freedom of her people, but at the cost of all she really wants from life.

Two boys grow into manhood as a new empire takes shape around the city of Rome, and as the pair are trained in the art of combat, they find themselves caught between two rival generals who are driving the empire to the brink of civil war.

A fictional memoir based on actual facts describing the early struggles and intrigues of the United States and of Aaron Burr.

Blends fact and fiction in a historical novel about the love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and architect Frank Wright, who was commissioned by Mamah and her husband Edwin in 1903 to design a new home for them.

While Mungo Park is embarked on the first of his two expeditions to chart the course of the Niger River, scoundrel Ned Rise is on his own outlandish career in London. He eventually becomes Park's Sancho Panza.