Biographical Fiction: Famous American Women

The Swans of Fifth Avenue : a America's First Daughter Novel by Stephanie Dray by Melanie Benjamin A carefully researched tale based on A novel steeped in the glamour and smoky thousands of original sources imagines the atmosphere of New York¡s high society experiences of third American President's follows Babe Paley, known for her high- daughter Patsy, who while accompanying profile marriage to CBS founder William her father to Paris struggles with his past Paley, her ranking in the International Best- affair with a slave and falls in love with his Dressed Hall of Fame and her scandalous, protégé against a backdrop of a growing headline-making friendship with Truman Capote. revolution.

Mrs. Grant and Madame Terrible Virtue Jule : a Novel by Ellen Feldman by Jennifer Chiaverini In a richly imagined portrait of one of the A reimagining of the life of Civil War most fascinating and influential figures of general's wife and First Lady Julia Grant the 20th century follows the founder of traces her unlikely courtship and marriage, Planned Parenthood—the indomitable her relationship with a slave who shared her Margaret Sanger, who sacrificed two name, and their shared lives during and husbands, three children and scores of after the war lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom. Mrs. Lincoln's Rival : a Novel Z : a Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Jennifer Chiaverini A follow-up to Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Therese Fowler traces the rivalry between the daughter of A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott an antebellum presidential cabinet member and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in and the 16th President's wife, the former of defiance of her father's opposition and her whom becomes the bride of governor scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age William Sprague and one of the most highly celebrity in the literary party scenes regarded women of her day.

The Hamilton Affair : a Novel Under the Wide and Starry by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman Sky : a Novel Relates the tumultuous true love story of by Nancy Horan Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Imagines the love affair of Scottish literary against the dramatic backdrop of the giant Robert Louis Stevenson and American American Revolution divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, who embark on two shared decades of international turbulence.

Book Title by Book Author Book Annotation Biographical Fiction: Famous American Women

Fever Call Me Zelda by Mary Beth Keane by Erika Robuck A fictionalized account of the life of Typhoid Fighting to forge an identity independent of Mary, an Irish immigrant who moved to New her famous husband, Zelda Fitzgerald, York at the turn of the century and became committed to a Baltimore psychiatric a successful cook, until the Department of hospital in 1932, finds a friend in nurse Anne Health noticed the trail of disease she left Howard, who, drawn into the Fitzgeralds' behind tumultuous lives, questions who the true genius is The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Helen Keller in Love Traces the lives of a wealthy Charleston by Rosie Sultan debutante who longs to break free from the A tale inspired by a little-known romance strictures of her household and the urban between the famous blind and deaf slave who is placed in her charge as a child Radcliffe graduate and her private secretary, before finding courage and a sense of self Peter Fagan, takes place in Keller's 30s, when in the wake of Annie Sullivan's diagnosis with tuberculosis, Keller's plans The Paris Wife : a Novel to marry are thwarted by her disapproving family. by Paula McLain Follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris Georgia : a Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe by Dawn Clifton Tripp A tale inspired by the romance between painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz describes how a young Miss Emily : A Novel O'Keeffe becomes the married by Nuala O'Connor photographer's mistress and muse as her Striking up a deep friendship with reclusive star rises in the art world poet Emily Dickinson, plucky Irish maid Ada Concannon struggles with Emily's obsessive Clara and Mr. Tiffany life, which is called into question when the by Susan Vreeland poet endeavors to protect Ada's reputation. Hoping to honor his father and the family business with innovative glass designs, Louis Comfort Tiffany launches the iconic I Always Loved You : a Story Tiffany lamp as designed by women's division head Clara Driscoll, who struggles of Mary Cassatt and Edgar with the mass production of her creations Degas by Robin Oliveira The best-selling author of My Name is Mary Mrs. Hemingway : a Novel Sutter presents a tale inspired by the by Naomi Wood romance between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Based upon actual love letters and Degas that finds young Mary struggling with telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts self-doubt after being rejected by the Paris of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Salon before entering into a tempestuous relationship with a Hemingway's four wives, describing what it fellow artist. was like to be loved by the dashing, adventurous novelist and member of the “Lost Generation.” Lindenhurst Memorial Library 1 Lee Avenue Lindenhurst, New York 11757 | (631) 957-7755 https://www.lindenhurstlibrary.org/