Biographical Historical Fiction

Includes fictional biographical histories.

Updated January 9, 2026
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Biographical Historical Fiction

Includes fictional biographical histories.

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The book of longings : a novel
Kidd, Sue Monk
Paper Book
"An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling." --Associated Press "A true masterpiece." --Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from...
Circling the sun : a novel
McLain, Paula
Paper Book
Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Paris Wife, takes readers to Kenya in the 1920s, where the beautiful young horse trainer, adventurer and aviator Beryl Markham tells the story of her life among the glamorous and decadent circle of British expats...
The invention of wings a novel
Kidd, Sue Monk
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorWriting at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early 19th century Charleston, yearns...
The lacuna
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighborhoods of 1930s Mexico City, through a disastrous stint at a military school...
The Swans of Fifth Avenue : a novel
Benjamin, Melanie
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s--and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. ...
A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
Fowler, Therese
Paper Book
The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family in as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into...
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