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Historical: Biographical

Authors & Titles

Akhenaten

• Mahfouz, Naguib: Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
  

Louisa May Alcott

• McNees, Kelly O'Connor: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
  

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
  

Vanessa Bell

• Sellers, Susan: Vanessa & Virginia
  

Sarah Bernhardt

• Braver, Adam: Divine Sarah
  

Billy the Kid

• Brooks, Bill: The Stone Garden
  
• McMurtry, Larry: Anything for Billy
  
• Vernon, John: Lucky 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)
  
• Lofts, Norah: The Concubine
  
• 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
  

Giordano Bruno

• Parris, S.J.: Heresy
  

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
  

Fidel Castro

• Fuentes, Norberto: The Autobiography of Fidel Castro
  

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)
  
• Lofts, Norah: The King's Pleasure
  

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
  

Charles Dickens

• Arnold, Gaynor: Girl in a Blue Dress
  

Emily Dickinson

• Charyn, Jerome: The Secret Life of 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
  

John Donne

• Haran, Maeve: The Lady and the Poet
  

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
  
• Lofts, Norah: Eleanor the Queen
  
• Lofts, Norah: Queen in Waiting
  

Frantz Fanon

• Wideman, John Edgar: Fanon
  

Charley Floyd (Pretty Boy Floyd)

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

• Bell, Madison Smartt: Devil's Dream
  

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
     
  3. Genghis: Bones of the Hills
     

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
  

Nell Gwyn

• Scott, Susan Holloway: The King's Favorite
  

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
  

Isabella I of Spain

• Lofts, Norah: Crown of Aloes
  

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
  

Katherine of Aragon

Ned Kelly

• Carey, Peter: True History of the Kelly Gang
  

John F. Kennedy

• Mercurio, Jed: American Adulterer
  

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
  

George Mallory

• Archer, Jeffrey: Paths of Glory
  

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
  

Mary, Queen of Scots

• Erickson, Carolly: The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots
  

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
  

Herman Melville

• Parini, Jay: The Passages of H.M.
  

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

• Lofts, Norah: Here Was a Man
  
• 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
  

Richard the Lionhearted

• Lofts, Norah: The Lute Player
  

Alice Roosevelt

• Wilson, Dorothy Clarke: Alice & Edith
  

Edith Roosevelt

• Wilson, Dorothy Clarke: Alice & Edith
  

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Feldman, Ellen: Lucy
  

Rumi (Djalal al-din Mohammed Balkhi)

• Tajadod, Nahal: Rumi: The Fire of Love
  

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
  
• Rush, Christopher: 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
  

Virginia Woolf

• Sellers, Susan: Vanessa & Virginia
  

Frank Lloyd Wright

• Boyle, T.C.: The Women
  

Orville & Wilbur Wright

• Boyne, Walter J.: Dawn Over Kitty Hawk