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The Novel Lives of Famous People

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August 2007
Compiled by Carol Kubala, of the Saxton B. Little Free Library, Columbia, CT, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Alexander, Bruce   Blind Justice   Sir John Fielding

Alexander, Karl   Time After Time   H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper

Alexander, Lawrence   Trilogy   Teddy Roosevelt

Allen, Steve   Murder On the Glitter Box   Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows

Barker, Pat   Regeneration   Siegfriend Sassoon

Barron, Stephanie   Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scarsgrave Manor   Jane Austen

Brown, Amy Belding   Mr. Emerson's Wife   Ralph Waldo Emerson

Buckley, Fiona   To Shield the Queen   Elizabeth I

Card, Orson Scott   Rebbekah; Sarah; Rachel and Leah   women of Genesis

Carr, Caleb   The Alienist   Theodore Roosevelt

Chessman, Harriet Scott   Lydia Cassat Reading the Morning Newspaper   Lydia and Mary Cassat

Chevalier, Tracy   Burning Bright; Girl with a Pearl Earring   William Blake; Johannes Vermeer

Clark, Mary Higgins   Mount Vernon Love Story   George and Martha Washington

Collins, Max Allen   Nate Heller series   Huey Long, Jayne Mansfield, Lindbergh, Capone, Thelma Todd, FDR, etc

Cross, Donna Woolfolk   Pope Joan   Pope Joan

Darby, Preston   Reluctant Assassin   John Wilkes Booth

Davis, Lindsey   Marcus Didius Falco   Roman Emperor Vespasian

de la Torre, Lillian   Detections of Sam Johnson and Others   Samuel Johnson

Diamant, Anita   The Red Tent    Biblical women

Doctorow, E.L.    Ragtime; Waterworks; World's Fair   W.T. Sherman; John Pierpont Morgan and others

Douglas, Carole Nelson   Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit   Elvis Presley

Due, Tananarive   Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C. J. Walker, America's First Black Female Milllionare   Madame C.J. Walker

Edge, Arabella   God of Spring   Gericault

Ellroy, James   American Tabloid; Cold Six Thousand   Hoover, Kennedy, and Hughs; Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Hoover, etc.

Ericson, Carolly   Last Wife of Henry VIII   Queen Catherine Parr

Fairstein, Linda   Entombed; Edgar Allen Poe

Feldman, Ellen   Lucy; The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank   Lucy Rutherford, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; Anne Frank

Forster, Margaret   Lady's Maid; Keeping the World Away   Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning; Gwen John

Garcia y Robertson, Rodrigo   Knight Errant series   Edward IV, Richard II, etc

George, Margaret   Helen of Troy; Autobiography of Henry VIII; Memoirs of Cleopatra; Mary, Called Magdalene   Helen of Troy; Henry VIII; Cleopatra; Mary Magdalene

Glylanders, S.C.   Better Angels of our Nature   William T. Sherman

Gold, Glen David   Carter Beats the Devil   Warren Harding and Charles J. Carter IV

Goulart, Ron   Groucho Marx, Master Detective   Groucho Marx

Gullard, Sandra   The many Lives and Sorrows of Josephine B.; Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe; The Last Great Dance on Earth   Empress Josephine

Hall, Robert Lee   Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case   Ben Franklin

Hambly, Barbara   President's Wife; Patriot Hearts   Mary Todd Lincoln; Martha Washingon, Dolley Madison, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemmings

Hamilton, Jane   Book of Ruth   Ruth

Haper, Karen   Poyson Garden   Elizabeth I

Harris, Robert   Imperium   Cicero

Henderson, Lois   Women of the Bible

Hoyt, Sarah   Fantasy series   Shakespeare

Iggulden, Cohn   Genghis   Genghis Khan

Jakeman, Jane   In the City of Dark Waters   Claude Monet

Kellerman, Faye   The Quality of Mercy   William Shakespeare

Kerr, Philip   Dark Matter   Sir Isaac Newton

King, Laurie R.   The Game; Locked Rooms   Kipling and Kim; Dashiell Hammett

Klein, Daniel   Kill Me Tender   Elvis Presley

Kostova, Elizabeth      The Historian   Vlad the Impaler

Lackey, Mercedes and Roberta Gellis   This Scepter'd Isle   Queen Elizabeth I

Lodge, David   Author   Henry James

Leigh, Wendy   Secret Letters of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy   Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy

Leppek, Christopher   Surrogate Assassin: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery   John Wilkes Booth

Lindsey, Paul   Fuhrer's Reserve   Adolph Hitler

Maguire, Gregory   Mirror, Mirror   Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia

Mailer, Norman   Castle in the Forest   Adolph Hitler

McMurtry, Larry   Buffalo Girls; Anything for Billy   Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley; Billy the Kid

Miles, Rosalind   I, Elizabeth   Queen Elizabeth I

Min, Anchee   Becoming Madame Mao   Madame Mao

Moron, Michelle   Nefertiti   Nefertiti

Morrow, James   The Last Witchfinder   Benjamin Franklin

Newman, Sharan   Catharine Levendeur series   Peter, Heloise, and Astrolabe Abelard

Oates, Joyce Carol   Blonde; Black Water   Marilyn Monroe; Ted Kennedy

Paige, Robin   Susan Wittig Albert and Bill Albert series   Charles and Kate Sheridan

Palmer, Leonard   Sherman Letter   William Tecumseh Sherman

Palmer, William J.   The Detective and Mr. Dickins   Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens

Paul, Barbara   Cadenza for Caruso   Enrico Caruso

Pearl, Matthew   Dante Club; Poe's Shadow   Dante Alighieri and Oliver Wendell Holmes; Edgar Allen Poe

Plaidy, Jeanne   Captive of Kensington Place   Queen Victoria

Rice, Anne   Christ the Lord   Jesus Christ

Robbins, David   Assasin's Gallery; Booth: A Novel   Franklin D. Roosevelt; John Wilkes Booth

Roosevelt, Eliot   Murder and the First Lady   Niece Eleanor

Rubenfeld, Jed   Interpretation of Murder   Freud and Jung

Satterthwait, Walter   Escapade   Phil Beaumont

Saylor, Steven   Twist at the End   O. Henry

Schechter, Harold   Nevermore   Edgar Allen Poe

Scott, Manda   Dreaming the Serpent Spear   Boudicca

Shaara, Michael   Killer Angels   Robert E. Lee, General George Gordon, Abraham Lincoln, etc

Silvis, Randall   On Night's Shore   Edgar Allen Poe

St. Clair Robson, Lucia   Ride the Wind; Light a Distant Fire   Cynthia Ann Parker; Osceola

Stern, PhilipVan Doren   The Man Who Shot Lincoln   Abe Lincoln

Stevens, Rosemary   Death on a Silver Tray   Beau Brummel

Tey, Josephine   Daughter of Time   Richard III

Thom, James Alexander   Panther in the Sky; Red Heart; Sign-Talker; Sea To Shining Sea   Tecumseh; Frances Slocum; George Drouillard; Clark family

Toibin, Colm   The Master   Henry James

Vidal, Gore   Empire; Julian; Burr; Lincoln   Henry James; Aaron Burr; Abraham Lincoln

Vreeland, Susan   Forest Lover; Passion of Artemisa   Emily Carr; Artemisia Gentileschi

Walso, Myra   Sacajawea   Sacajawea

Weir, Alison   Innocent Traitor   Lady Jane Grey

Wells, Lawrence   Rommel and the Rebel   Rommel

 
 
      
   
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