Imagined Lives
Using Fiction to Tell Stories of Real People

Infamous  (George "Machine Gun" Kelly)
Ace Atkins

Rasputin’s Daughter (Russian monk and his daughter, Maria)
Robert Alexander

Arthur & George (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Julian Barnes

Handsome Harry, or, The Gangster's True Confessions  (Harry Pierpont, leader of the Dillinger Gang)
James Carlos Blake

The Inner Circle (Pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey)
T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Incantation of Frida K (Artist Frida Kahlo)
Kate Braverman

Jefferson  (The founding father during his years as ambassador of the fledgling U.S.A. to France)
 Max Byrd

Parrot and Olivier in America (Inspired by the life of French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville)
Peter Carey

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Jerome Charyn

Remarkable Creatures (Based on real historical figures, Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot)
Tracy Chevalier

Flying Blind: A Novel of Amelia Earhart
Max Allan Collins

Claude and Camille:  A novel of Monet
Stephanie Cowell

The Hours (Virginia Woolf)
Michael Cunningham

I Am Madame X  (Virginie Gautreau , the muse for John Singer Sargent's most provocative portrait)
Gioia Diliberto

Homer and Langley (New York's fabled Collyer brothers)
E. L. Doctorow

Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen  (Michal, wife of David and daughter of King Saul)
India Edghill

Oscar Wilde Discovers America
Louis Edwards

What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (A Lost Boy of Sudan)
Dave Eggers

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
C.W. Gortner

Creation (John James Audubon)
Katherine Govier

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Chris Greenhalgh

I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
Brian Hall

The Old American (Story based on the factual 1746 abduction of Englishman Nathan Blake by Algonkian Indians)
Ernest Hebert

Loving Frank (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Nancy Horan

The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (The first female tiger trainer in circus history)
Robert Hough

Bird of Another Heaven (Nancy Keala, aka Nancy Callahan, and King Kalakaua of Hawaii)
James D. Houston

Pretty Boy Floyd 
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

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

American Adulterer (J. F. Kennedy)
Jed Mercurio

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi & Leo Szilard)
Lydia Millet

Charlotte and Emily: A Novel of the Brontës
 Jude Morgan

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath
Kate Moses

Mary (Mary Todd Lincoln)
Janis Cooke Newman

The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
Jay Parini

Double Play (Jackie Robinson)
Robert B. Parker

Dancing in the Dark (Bert Williams, the famous turn of the century black vaudeville performer)
Caryl Phillips

The Origin: A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin
Irving Stone

Fanny: A Fiction (Fanny Wright, Scots-born American abolitionist and feminist)
Edmund White

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