biographical fiction

A novelization of the new movie about children's novelist Beatrix Potter.

A fictional account of the lifelong friendship between Willow, a young Chinese girl, and Pearl, the daughter of Christian missionaries who would become the celebrated author, Pearl S. Buck. Young Pearl and Willow become friends in a small southern China town and share their experiences of growing up, love, and motherhood. When civil war erupts, Pearl is forced to leave the country while Willow's "imperialist" ties threaten her safety in Mao's regime. Though a world apart, the two women remain friends.

Draws from accounts by Nez Perce storytellers to relate the events of 1805 and 1806 when members of the Lewis and Clark expedition first encountered the tribe in northern Idaho.

The first of Robert Graves's two-part account of the life of Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius, written in the form of Claudius's autobiography, covering the years from his early childhood through his election as Emperor in 41 A.D.

A novel based on the life of Profesora Camila Henr?quez-Ure?a, a teacher whose mother was Salom? Ure?a, famous nineteenth-century political poet from the Dominican Republic.

A fictionalized account of the life of Judith Shakespeare in which she tries to cope with her famous father's life.

Imaginary scenario in which Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan survive their ill-fated round-the-world flight, landing on a deserted island they come to know as heaven.

Ten-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, experiences the larger world outside of tiny Glencaraid, Scotland, when she goes to visit her married sister in Perth.

An historical fiction depicting the life and reign of Lady Jane Grey, who finds herself in the middle of civil unrest that plagued the House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.

A fictionalized account of the early life of Elizabeth Tudor, in which young Elizabeth copes with the tragic loss of her mother, Anne Boleyn, her father's abandonment, imprisonment in the Tower of London, and the private and public scandals that threaten her life and future.