Biographical novels - fictional biographies about authors

[Booky]

Hey guys,

I really enjoy reading biographical novels/ fictional biographies about real writers and I was just wondering if you had some titles in mind for me...

Here are the novels I've already read:
Author, Author (David Lodge) and The Master (Colm Toibin), both dealing with Henry James's life.

There is also The Hours (M. Cunningham) but I'm not a Virginia Woolf fan...

I've also perused a couple of Peter Ackroyd's biographies, but they are not really fictional...

Thanks :)

[Dori]

Read some of Irving Stone's work. He wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy (a biographical novel based on Michelangelo), Those Who Love (based on the US President John Adams), and The Origin (Charles Darwin, of course). There are more of them written by him too.

[ballb]

Got to be about writers has it? OK, try Philip Lindsay`s "Gentle Knight" about Chaucer on the road to Canterbury. You`ll have to order online as it is long out of print.

Does "Wife To Mr Milton" by Robert Graves qualify?

Bit of a poser, this one. I`ll go off and have a think. Must be several surely.

[hellsapoppin]

I thought about bio-fics I've read over the years and thought my list would be two or three pages long. Instead, I could only come up with three books!

Plath's The Bell Jar

Frank's Anne Frank: The Story of a Young Girl

Stone's Agony and the Ecstasy



These three made for good reading. Perhaps more will come to mind later on.

[rgdmalaysia]

"Cakes and Ale" by Somerset Maugham (which is either about Anthony Trollope or Thomas Hardy) is the best fictionalized account of an author's life that I have read....A very enjoyable read about what a reader needs for inspiration....Sometimes chaos and heartbreak are better stability and order.

[mtpspur]

Max Allan Collins has written five murder mysteries using real life events in an author's life to weave the mystery:

The Titanic Murders--Jacques Futrelle
The Hindenburg Murders--Leslie Charteris
The Pearl Harbor Murders--Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lusitania Murders--S. S. VanDine
The London Blitz Murders--Agatha Christie

Now the author is very successful and writes well in the historical/mystery field and he researches his work to bring as much of the author's factual life into the narrative.

[Nico87]

"Cakes and Ale" by Somerset Maugham (which is either about Anthony Trollope or Thomas Hardy) is the best fictionalized account of an author's life that I have read....A very enjoyable read about what a reader needs for inspiration....Sometimes chaos and heartbreak are better stability and order.

Just ordered a hardcover copy of that book published by Random House because of your words, so it best be worth it! :p

[rgdmalaysia]

Just ordered a hardcover copy of that book published by Random House because of your words, so it best be worth it! :p

;) Well I hope you like it....If you do and and have not read any other books by Maugham, I would recommend The Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage, and the Moon and Sixpence....All brilliant IMO.