The American biographical novel

Michael Lackey

earliest edition we have, 2016 Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2016 272 pages

"Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. This publication f...

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The American biographical novel edition · 2016 · Bloomsbury Academic · 278 pages · 9781628926347
American Biographical Novel edition · 2016 · Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 272 pages · 9781628926354
American Biographical Novel edition · 2016 · Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 272 pages · 9781628926361

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