Real Women, Real Fiction

Biographical Fiction Celebrating American Women
in honor of Women’s History Month

Louisa May Alcott
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees

Polly Bemis
Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Mary and Lydia Cassatt
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman

Dr. May Chinn
Angel of Harlem by Kuwana Haulsey

Emily Dickinson
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn
The Diary of Emily Dickinson by Jamie Fuller

Amelia Earhart
Hidden Latitudes by Alison Anderson
Flying Blind: A Novel of Amelia Earhart by Max Allan Collins
The Shadow of Wings by June Knox-Mawer

Jessie Benton Frémont
Immortal Wife by Irving Stone

Virginia Gautreau
I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto

Harriet Hemings
The President’s Daughter by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Rachel Jackson
Eagle’s Cry by David Nevin
The President’s Lady by Irving Stone

Nancy Kelsey
An Ordinary Woman by Cecelia Holland

Euphemia King
True Women by Janice Woods Windle

Rachel LeMoyne
Rachel LeMoyne by Eileen Charbonneau

Mary Todd Lincoln
The Emancipator’s Wife by Barbara Hambly
Mary by Janis Cooke Newman

Dolley Madison
Dolley by Rita Mae Brown
Eagle’s Cry by David Nevin

Caroline E. Winder McGavock
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

Marilyn Monroe
The Marilyn Tapes by Edward Gorman
The Immortals by Michael Korda
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

Sylvia Plath
Wintering by Kate Moses

Sarah Agnes Prine
These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner

Clara Rathbone
Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon

Patty Reed, of the Donner Party
Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston

Sacajawea
Stone Heart by Diane Glancy

Francis Slocum
The Red Heart by James Alexander Thom

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo

Tituba
I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé

Madam C. J. Walker
The Black Rose by Tananarive Due

Virginia Woolf
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Francis Wright
Fanny: A Fiction by Edmund White

Note: If you like this list you may also like Imagined Lives and This Thing Called Love: Historical Couples in Fiction.

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