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Works based on biographical novels (2 C) ... The Big Blow (novel) The Birthday Party (novel) Blonde (novel) Blood Red, Snow White; Brendan (novel) C. Carry On, Mr ...
First edition (publ. McGraw-Hill) Lord Grizzly is a 1954 biographical novel by Frederick Manfred.It was part of his Buckskin Man Tales series of five novels. It was Manfred's first novel published under his new pen name, with his prior seven novels published under the name Feike Feikema.
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 .
Stone wrote a dozen biographical novels, but this one and Lust for Life (1934) are best known, in large part because both had major Hollywood film adaptations. Part of the 1961 novel was adapted to film in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II .
Kjelgaard wrote more than 40 novels, the most famous of which is 1945's Big Red. It sold 225,000 copies by 1956 [ 2 ] and was made into a 1962 Walt Disney film of the same name . His books were primarily about dogs and wild animals, often with animal protagonists and told from the animal's point of view .
Lady Joker, Volume 1, by Kaoru Takamura. Obliterating the line between literary and crime fiction, a Japanese legend makes a riveting English language debut. This epic novel sold more than a ...
According to Queeney is a 2001 Booker-longlisted [1] biographical novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge.It concerns the last years of Samuel Johnson and his relationship between Hester Thrale and her daughter 'Queeney'.
The novel won Best Historical Fiction at the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. [7] As of 2021, the novel has sold two million copies in the United States. [8] Overall, the novel received positive feedback from critics. [9] The novel was featured in positive starred reviews by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.