biographical fiction

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biographical fiction

Sarah

2000
The first novel in a trilogy on the women of Genesis, focusing on the life of Sarah, a devoted wife, and follower of the God of Abraham, who is chosen to experience a miracle.

The blue flower

1997
A fictionalized account of the life of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a late-eighteenth-century German philosophy student, who later becomes the Romantic poet Novalis, focusing on his infatuation with twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn.

The agony and the ecstasy

a biographical novel of Michelangelo
1961
Michelangelo's career as a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet is traced from his promising boyhood apprenticeships to the painter Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo through all the years of his genius.

Rob Roy

2007
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.

Girl with a pearl earring

2003
Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.

Abundance

a novel of Marie Antoinette
2006
A fictional autobiography in which Marie Antoinette shares the story of her life, from her baptism, to the royal courts of France, to the guillotine.

Morgan's run

2000
Richard Morgan, the refined son of a Bristol tavern-keeper finds himself consigned as a convict to the "First Fleet" which brought male and female prisoners to the newly discovered continent of Australia.

Lust for life

1984
A fictional account of Vincent Van Gogh's life where he refused to bow to convention and his paintings broke every rule yet brought a new kind of beauty to ravish the human eye.

Ella Fitzgerald

the tale of a vocal virtuosa
2002
Scat Cat Monroe, a feline fan, tells the story of how small town girl Ella Fitzgerald became one of the world's best-known songstresses.

Finding Providence

the story of Roger Williams
1997
After being forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Roger Williams travels south and, with the help of the Narragansett Indians, founds Providence, Rhode Island.

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