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Historical: Biographical

Authors & Titles

Akhenaten

• Mahfouz, Naguib: Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
  

Alexander the Great

• Nicastro, Nicholas: Empire of Ashes
  
• Pressfield, Steven: The Virtues of War
  
• Renault, Mary: Alexander the Great series
  
  1. Fire From Heaven
     
  2. The Persian Boy
     
  3. Funeral Games
     

James Jesus Angleton

• Buckley, William F. Jr.: Spytime
  

Fatty Arbuckle

• Stahl, Jerry: I, Fatty
  

Archimedes

• Bradshaw, Gillian: The Sand-Reckoner
  

Benedict Arnold

• Harr, John Ensor: Dark Eagle
  

John James Audubon

• Brown, John Gregory: Audubon's Watch
  

Jane Austen

• Moser, Nancy: Just Jane
  

Oswaldo Barreto Miliani

• St. Aubin de Teran, Lisa: Swallowing Stones
  

Clyde Barrow (see Bonnie & Clyde)

Clara Barton

• Day, Ava Dianne: Cut to the Heart
  

Sarah Bernhardt

• Braver, Adam: Divine Sarah
  

Billy the Kid

• Brooks, Bill: The Stone Garden
  
• McMurtry, Larry: Anything for Billy
  

William & Kate Blake

• Warner, Janet: Other Sorrows, Other Joys
  

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

• Hower, Edward: Shadows and Elephants
  

Anne Boleyn

• Dunn, Suzannah: The Queen of Subtleties
  
• Gardner, Laurien: A Lady Raised High
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Wives of Henry VIII series, listed under Historical Fiction: 1500s)
  
• Maxwell, Robin: Mademoiselle Boleyn
  

Josephine Bonaparte

• Gulland, Sandra: Josephine Bonaparte series
  
  1. The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
     
  2. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
     
  3. The Last Great Dance on Earth
     

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Rambaud, Patrick: Napoleon series
  
  1. The Battle
     
  2. The Reatreat
     
  3. Napoleon's Exile
     

Bonnie & Clyde

• Brooks: Bonnie and Clyde
  

Lizzie Borden

• Engstrom, Elizabeth: Lizzie Borden
  
• Hunter, Evan: Lizzie
  

Lucrezia Borgia

• Faunce, John: Lucrezia Borgia
  

Boudica

• Scott, Manda: Boudica series
  
  1. Dreaming the Eagle
     
  2. Dreaming the Bull
     
  3. Dreaming the Hound
     

Jim Bowie

• Eickhoff, Randy Lee: Bowie
  

Brontë Family

• Hughes, Glyn: Brontë
  

John Brown

• Banks, Russell: Cloudsplitter
  

Elizabeth Berrett Browning

• Forster, Margaret: Lady's Maid
  

Chang and Eng Bunker

• Slouka, Mark: God's Fool
  
• Strauss, Darin: Chang and Eng
  

Aaron Burr

• Vidal, Gore: Burr
  (This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
  

Julius Caesar

• Iggulden, Conn: Emperor series
  
  1. Emperor: the Gates of Rome
     
  2. Emperor: The Death of Kings
     
  3. Emperor: The Field of Swords
     

Calamity Jane

• McMurtry, Larry: Buffalo Girls
  

Caravaggio

• Peachment, Christopher: Caravaggio
  

Giacomo Casanova

• Codrescu, Andrei: Casanova in Bohemia
  
• Miller, Andrew: Casanova in Love
  

Catherine of Aragon

• Gardner, Laurien: The Spanish Bride
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Wives of Henry VIII series, listed under Historical Fiction: 1500s)
  

Charging Elk

• Welch, James: The Heartsong of Charging Elk
  

May Edward Chinn

• Haulsey, Kuwana: Angel of Harlem
  

Thomas Chippendale

• Laker, Rosalind: Gilded Splendour
  

Winston Churchill

• Dobbs, Michael: Winston Churchill series
  
  1. Winston's War
     
  2. Never Surrender
     
  3. Churchill's Hour
     
  4. Churchill's Triumph
     

Clark (Lewis and)

• Hall, Brian: I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company
  
• Nevin, David: Meriwether
  
• Wheeler, Richard S.: Eclipse
  

Christopher Columbus

• Frohlich, Newton: 1492
  

Richard "Boss" Croker

• O'Farrell, Padraic: Boss Croker
  

George Armstrong Custer

• Compton, Ralph: Clarion's Call
  

Charles Darwin

• Darnton, John: The Darwin Conspiracy
  

Louis Daugerre

• Smith, Dominic: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daugerre
  

Charles Lutwidge Dawson

• Roiphe, Kate: Still She Haunts Me
  

Lenora Demarest

• Carlson, Lori M.: The Flamboyant
  

Valentino Achak Deng

• Eggers, Dave: What is the What
  

Laura Diaz

• Fuentes, Carlos: The Years with Laura Diaz
  

Emily Dickinson

• Edwards, Anne: The Hesitant Heart
  
• Fuller, Jamie: The Diary of Emily Dickinson
  

Walt Disney

• Jungk, Peter Stephan: The Perfect American
  

Dixon (& Mason)

• Pynchon, Thomas: Mason & Dixon
  

Frederick Douglass

• Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Douglass' Women
  

George Drouillard

• Thom, James Alexander: Sign-Talker
  

Aimee du Buc

• Wallach, Janet: Seraglio
  

Daphne DuMaurier

• Picardie, Justine: Daphne
  

Amelia Earhart

• Mendelsohn, Jane: I Was Amelia Earhart
  

Eleanor of Aquitaine

• Kaufman, Pamela: The Book of Eleanor
  

Frantz Fanon

• Wideman, John Edgar: Fanon
  

Charley Floyd (Pretty Boy Floyd)

• Brooks, Bill: Pretty Boy
  
• McMurtry, Larry & Ossana, Diana: Pretty Boy Floyd
  

Sir John Franklin

• Edric, Robert: The Broken Lands
  

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II

• Bordihn, Maria R.: The Falcon of Palermo
  

Jessie Benton Fremont

• Stone, Irving: Immortal Wife
  

John Charles Fremont

• Nevin, David: Dream West
  

Robert Frost

• Hall, Brian: Fall of Frost
  

Paul Gauguin

• Vargas Llosa, Mario: The Way to Paradise
  

Virginie Gautreau

• Diliberto, Gioia: I Am Madame X
  

Genghis Khan

• Iggulden, Conn: Genghis Khan series
  
  1. Genghis: Birth of an Empire
     
  2. Genghis: Lords of the Bow
     

Gary Gilmore

• Mailer, Norman: The Executioner's Song
  

Ulysses S. Grant

• Byrd, Max: Grant
  
• Ehrlich, Ev: Grant Speaks
  
• Parry, Richard: That Fateful Lightning
  
• Skimin, Robert: Ulysses
  

Johann Gutenberg

• Morrison, Blake: The Justification of Johann Gutenberg
  

Emma Hamilton

• Elyot, Amanda: Too Great a Lady: The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton
  

G.H. Hardy

• Leavitt, David: The Indian Clerk
  

Sally Hemings

• Chase-Riboud, Barbara: Sally Hemings series
  
  1. Sally Hemings
     
  2. The President's Daughter
     

Wild Bill Hickok

• Eickhoff, Randy Lee: And Not to Yield
  

Joe Hill

• Stegner, Wallace: Joe Hill
  

Heinrich Hoffmann

• Dudman, Clare: 98 Reasons for Being
  

John Henry "Doc" Holliday

• Eickhoff, Randy Lee: The Fourth Horseman
  
• Olds, Bruce: Bucking the Tiger
  

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Hansen, Ron: Exiles
  

  Henry James

  • Boorstin, Jon: The Newsboys' Lodging-House
    
  • Lodge, David: Author, Author
    
  • Tóibín, Colm: The Master
    

  Martha Jefferson

  • Grimes, Roberta: My Thomas
    

  Samuel Johnson

  • Bainbridge, Beryl: According to Queeney
    

  John Paul Jones

  • Nicastro, Nicholas: The Eighteenth Captain
    

  Chief Joseph

  • Dugan, Bill: Chief Joseph
    

  Ned Kelly

  • Carey, Peter: True History of the Kelly Gang
    

  Marie Laveau

  • Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Voodoo Dreams
    

  Florence Lawrence

  • Mann, William J.: The Biograph Girl
    

  Lewis & Clark

  • Hall, Brian: I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company
    
  • Nevin, David: Meriwether
    
  • Wheeler, Richard S.: Eclipse
    

  Abraham Lincoln

  • Braver, Adam: Mr. Lincoln's Wars
    
  • Slotkin, Richard: Abe
    
  • Vidal, Gore: Lincoln
    (This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
    

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  • Newman, Janis Cooke: Mary: A Novel
    

  Peter Lorre

  • Epstein, Leslie: Pandaemonium
    

  Owen Madden

  • Walsh, Michael: And All the Saints
    

  Alma Mahler

  • Phillips, Max: The Artist's Wife
    

  Madame Mao

  • Min, Anchee: Becoming Madame Mao
    

  Marie Antoinette

  • Davis, Kathryn: Versailles
    
  • Erickson, Carolly: The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
    
  • Naslund, Sena Jeter: Abundance
    

  Grace Marks

  • Atwood, Margaret: Alias Grace
    

  Andrew Marvell

  • Peachment, Christopher: The Green and the Gold
    

  Mason & Dixon

  • Pynchon, Thomas: Mason & Dixon
    

  Mata Hari

  • Murphy, Yannick: Signed, Mata Hari
    
  • Skinner, Richard: The Red Dancer
    

  Joseph McCarthy

  • Buckley, William F. Jr.: The Redhunter
    

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  • Wheeler, Richard S.: The Exile
    

  Empress Mehrunnisa

  • Sundaresan, Indu: The Twentieth Wife
    

  Michelangelo

  • Stone, Irving: The Agony and the Ecstasy
    

  Max Mohr

  • Reuss, Frederick: Mohr
    

  Marilyn Monroe

  • Oates, Joyce Carol: Blonde
    

  Henry Morgan

  • Newcomb, Kerry: Mad Morgan
    

  Maria Anna Mozart

  • Charbonnier, Rita: Mozart's Sister
    

  Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief

  • Thom, James Alexander & Dark Rain: Warrior Woman
    

  Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States

  • Cech, John: A Rush of Dreamers
    

  Rudolf Nureyev

  • McCann, Colum: Dancer
    

  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

  • Francisco, Ruth: The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    

  Bonnie Parker (see Bonnie & Clyde)

  Katherine Parr (Sixth Wife of Henry VIII)

  • Erickson, Carolly: The Last Wife of Henry VIII
    
  • Luke, Mary: The Ivy Crown
    

  Saint Patrick

  • Lawhead, Stephen R.: Patrick: Son of Ireland
    

  Eva Peron

  • Enright, Anne: The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
    

  Harry Pierpont

  • Blake, James Carlos: Handsome Harry
    

  Allan Pinkerton

  • Lerner, Eric: Pinkerton's Secret
    

  Camille Pissarro

  • Stone, Irving: Depths of Glory
    

  Sylvia Plath

  • Moses, Kate: Wintering
    

  Pocahontas

  • Donnell, Susan: Pocahontas
    

  Edgar Allan Poe

  • May, John: Poe & Fanny
    

  Sir Walter Raleigh

  • Nye, Robert: The Voyage of the Destiny
    

  Srinivasa Ramanujan

  G.H. Hardy

  • Leavitt, David: The Indian Clerk
    

  Ramses the Great

  • Jacq, Christian: Ramses series
    
    1. The Son of Light
       
    2. The Eternal Temple
       
    3. The Battle of Kadesh
       
    4. The Lady of Abu Simbel
       
    5. Under the Western Acacia
       

  Henry & Clara Rathbone

  • Mallon, Thomas: Henry and Clara
    

  Red Cloud

  • Chiaventone, Frederick J.: Moon of Bitter Cold
    

  Alice Roosevelt

  • Wilson, Dorothy Clarke: Alice & Edith
    

  Edith Roosevelt

  • Wilson, Dorothy Clarke: Alice & Edith
    

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  • Feldman, Ellen: Lucy
    

  Sacajawea

  • Glancy, Diane: Stone Heart
    

  Sappho

  • Jong, Erica: Sappho's Leap
    

  Clara Schumann

  • Galloway, Janice: Clara
    

  Dred Scott

  • Neighbour, Mary E.: Speak Right Out: Dred Scott, a Novel
    

  Chief Sequoyah

  • Conley, Robert J.: Sequoyah
    

  Julia Shakespeare

  • Tiffany, Grace: My Father Had a Daughter
    

  William Shakespeare

  • Cook, Bruce: Young Will
    
  • Tiffany, Grace: Will
    

  O.J. Simpson

  • Dunne, Dominick: Another City, Not My Own
    

  Wallis Warfield Simpson

  • Edwards, Anne: Wallis
    

  Sitting Bull

  • Dugan, Bill: Sitting Bull
    

  Harriet Smithson

  • Balint, Christine: Ophelia's Fan
    

  Baruch Spinoza

  • Smilevski, Goce: Conversation with Spinoza
    

  Henry Morton Stanley

  • Forbath, Peter: The Last Hero
    

  Doña Inés Suárez

  • Allende, Isabel: Ines of My Soul
    

  Talleyrand

  • Picezenik, Steve & Rovner-Picezenik, Roberta: My Beloved Talleyrand
    

  Tecumseh

  • Thom, James Alexander: Panther in the Sky
    

  Benjamin Thompson

  • Delbanco, Nicholas: The Count of Concord
    

  Flora Tristan

  • Vargas Llosa, Mario: The Way to Paradise
    

  Leon Trotsky

  • Delahunt, Meaghan: In the Casa Azul
    

  Sojourner Truth

  • Sheehan, Jacqueline: Truth
    

  Nat Turner

  1. Styron, William: The Confessions of Nat Turner
     

  Vincent Van Gogh

  • Stone, Irving: Lust for Life
    

  A'Lelia Walker

  • Neihart, Ben: Rough Amusements
    

  C.J. Walker

  • Due, Tananarive: The Black Rose
    

  Alfred Wegener

  • Dudman, Clare: One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead
    

  Wilde, Constance (wife of Oscar)

  • Elfman, Clare: The Case of the Pederast's Wife
    

  William the Conqueror

  • Heyer, Georgette: The Conqueror
    

  Roger Williams

  • Settle, Mary Lee: I, Roger Williams
    

  Orville & Wilbur Wright

  • Boyne, Walter J.: Dawn Over Kitty Hawk
    

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