#biofiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #biofiction, aggregated by home.social.
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Feel free to drop us any recs on #biofiction & #biodrama - esp. about writers & other people from British, American & anglophone #history 📚
Get these titles here in our catalogue:
🔎 "The Mystery of Mrs Christie" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1963445511
🔎 "The Christie Affair" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1963409590 -
Today in #newbooks in our #library - 2 new #biofiction novels on #AgathaChristie 👑
The Queen of Crime disappeared for 11 days in 1926. These 2 novels by Marie Benedict & Nina de Gramont fictionalise this real #mystery in different ways -
Finally, here's Jim Shepard's #biofictional novel "Nosferatu", recalling the imagined life of the German film pioneer Murnau as a tragic genius passionate about his films & his male lovers
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=233919481
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It's #ZeldaFitzgerald's birthday! The author, artist, socialite & wife of #FScottFitzgerald was #BOTD in 1900!
Her life was both glamorous & tragic. If you want to read her own works, a #biography or #biofiction, about her art or the #RoaringTwenties & #Flappers - we got it!
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What if Hilary Rodham never married #BillClinton? The 2020 biofictional novel "Rodham" by Curtis Sittenfeld explores this #alternatehistory setting
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=168936386X
#biofiction #lifewriting #HilaryRodhamClinton #HilaryClinton #AmericanLiterature
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This essay collection, ed by Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke & Julian Wacker looks at #NeoVictorian re-imaginings of Black people in the 19th c in novels, film, TV series& drama, incl & beyond #Bridgerton 🖤
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1772460192
#BlackHistoryMonth #FilmStudies #BlackStudies #biofiction -
🔥Oh this book is on fire!! 🧯🧯🧯
#ZadieSmith's #biofiction / #historicalnovel The Fraud is based on a famous 19th c criminal trial & features a remarkable Black character, as well as authors #CharlesDickens & William Ainsworthhttps://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1860359825