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Fiction Based on Real Events, People
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August 2001
Compiled by Ellen Olson,
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.)
Fiction titles in italics, followed by the corresponding non-fiction titles.
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
Duet for a Lifetime: The Story of the Original Siamese twins by Kay Hunter
The Two: A Biography by Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace
Becoming Madame Mao by Ainchee Min
Verdict in Peking: The Trail of the Gang of Four by David Bonavia
The White Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao Zedong by Ross Terrill
Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston
Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party edited by Kristin Johnson
Across the Plains in the Donner Party by Virginia Reed Murphy; With Letters by James Reed; Edited by Karen Zeinert
The Archaeology of the Donner Party by Donald L. Hardesty
Winter of Entrapment: A New Look at the Donner Party by Joseph A. King
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence by Michael Capuzzo
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Masters of Illustion by Mary-Ann Tirrone Smith
The Circus Fire: A True Story by Stewart O'Nan
The Lodger by Marie Belloq Downes
Time After Time by Karl Alexander
Lestrade and the Ripper by M. J. Trow
Ripping Time by Linda Evans and Robert Asprin
The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper by Paul West
Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna
Night of the Ripper by Robert Block
Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killer by Stewart P. Evans and Paul Gainey
The Last Victim: The Extraordinary Life of Florence Maybrick, the Wife of Jack the Ripper by Anne E. Graham and Carol Emmas
The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved--in San Francisco by Robert Graysmith
Jack the Ripper Sourcebook by Stuart P. Evans
Compulsion by Meyer Levin
Life plus 99 Years by Nathan Freudenthal Leopold
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe's Island: A History of the Juan Fernandez Islands by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.
In Sunlight in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor
The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCullough
O.K.: The Corral, the Earps, and Doc Holliday by Paul West
And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight by Paula Mitchell Marks
Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends by Allen Barra
World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
1939, the Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter
Trylon and Perisphere: The 1939 New York World's Fair by Barbara Cohen
Aftershocks by Richard S. Wheeler
Wings of Destiny by Catherine Lanigan
Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Dan Kurzman
The Killer Angels by Jeff Shaara
Gettysburg: The Final Fury by Bruce Catton
Unto this Hour by Tom Wicker
Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas by John J. Hennessy
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
The Aboriginal Tasmanians by Lyndall Ryan
The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West
Things that must not be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China by Michael David Kwan
A Fifth of November by Paul West
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors by Elinor Brecher
Where Light and Shadow Meet: A memoir by Emilie Schindler with Erika Rosenberg
Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne
The Run of his Life: The People V. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Harry Gold by Millicent Dillon
Bombshell: The Secret History of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy by Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel
Leopard in Exile by Andre Norton
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix Gray
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
Ameria Earhart: The Mystery Solved by Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long
The Star Gazer by Zsolt Harsanyi
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The Well Mannered Assassin by Aline, Countess of Romanones
Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal by John Follain
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland
Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson
The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte by James Tully
The Brontes by Juliet Barker
Eating Pavlova by D.M. Thomas
Anna Freud: A Biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of his Evil by Ron Rosenbaum
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Naming Names by Victor Navasky
I'd Hate Myself in the Morning by Ring Lardner Jr.
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