Real Women, Real Fiction
Biographical Fiction Celebrating American Women

Clover Adams:
Refinements Of Love by Sarah Booth Conroy

Lizzie Borden by Elizabeth Engstrom
Miss Lizzie by Walter Satterthwait

Sarah Bowman:
Fearless by Lucia St. Clair Robson

Elizabeth Bacon Custer:
Libbie by Judy Alter

Emily Dickinson
The Diary Of Emily Dickinson by Jamie Fuller

Amelia Earhart:
Hidden Latitudes by Alison Anderson
Flying Blind by Max Allan Collins
The Shadow Of Wings by June Knox-Mawer
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn

Jessie Benton Frémont:
Jessie by Judy Alter
Immortal Wife by Irving Stone

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

Sally Hemings:
Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Rachel Jackson:
Eagle’s Cry by David Nevin

Zerelda James:
Mamaw by Susan Dodd

Mary Jemison by Rayna M. Gangi

Nancy Kelsey:
An Ordinary Woman by Cecelia Holland

Euphemia King:
True Women by Janice Woods Windle

Rachel LeMoyne:
Rachel LeMoyne by Eileen Charbonneau

Dolley Madison:
Dolley by Rita Mae Brown
Eagle’s Cry by David Nevin
Queen Dolley by Dorothy Clarke Wilson

Marilyn Monroe:
The Marilyn Tapes by Edward Gorman
The Immortals by Michael Korda
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Queen Of Desire by Sam Toperoff

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo

Tituba:
I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé

Janet Todd:
When This Cruel War Is Over by Thomas J. Fleming

Elizabeth Van Lew:
Only Call Us Faithful by Marie Jakober

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

Frances Wright:
Fanny by Edmund White

This list was prepared by the St. Charles Public Library, March 2004. jhl