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by Sally Koslow
Biographical novels are endlessly fascinating. They are fictional – often highly researched but still fictional – accounts of a real person&#;s life. The Paris Wife, about Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson. The Other Boleyn Girl, about Mary Boleyn and her sister Anne. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote&#;s reconstruction and retelling of the murder of the Clutter family.
They&#;re popular, educational, and often become terrific movies.
If you&#;re thinking of tackling one, here are some secrets to making yours work.
1. Pick a human subject you find genuinely fascinating
Unless they’re crazy-fast, most writers spend at least a year completing a manuscript, and once it’s sold, another year or two may pass until publication. After that, promotion continues for a good, long while.
You’ll be channeling your hero and/or heroine for what will feel like forever, so you’d best pick people who are sufficiently complex.
2. Your character doesn’t have to be wholly likable
They do need to be believable and intriguing.
3. Jump-start your research with biographies
If a biography exists of your subject, lucky you. Begin there. If you’re truly fortunate, there will be more than one biography to inhale. Next, move on to diaries, memoirs, letters, interviews, and r
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Biographical novel
Novel containing a fictional account of a person's life
The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictional genre, the novel. These reimagined biographies are sometimes called semi-biographical novels, to distinguish the relative historicity of the work from other biographical novels
The genre rose to prominence in the s with best-selling works by authors such as Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, Irving Stone and Lion Feuchtwanger. These books became best-sellers, but the genre was dismissed by literary critics. In later years it became more accepted and has become both a popular and critically accepted genre.[1]
Some biographical novels bearing only superficial resemblance to the historical novels or introducing elements of other genres that supersede the retelling of the historical narrative, for example Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter follows the plot devices of a vampire fiction closely. Biographical fiction often also falls within the genres of historical fiction or alternative history.
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