biographical fiction
Invented true stories
Biographical fiction is narrative literature based on real people's lives but incorporating invented elements—imagined dialogue, scenes, or inner thoughts.
Unlike straight biography, it doesn't claim strict factual accuracy; unlike pure fiction, it draws on documented history.
The genre includes novels about historical figures: a biographical fiction about Marie Curie's early years in Paris.
- point of viewOne's particular outlook
- artistic licenseSanctioned deviation from fact
- protagonistStory's central figure
- inner lifeOne's private mental world
- privacy concernsWorries about personal exposure
based on true events · docufiction · faction · moral responsibility · creative nonfiction · factual accuracy · cultural sensitivity · unreliable narrator · dramatization · untold story · private letters · authenticity · flashback · historical drama · Jazz Age · stream of consciousness · intertextuality · Renaissance
- historical fictionhistorical novel, period drama, Victorian novel, historical mystery, costume drama
- biography as artmemoir, life story
- historical fiction studiesperiod accuracy, world building, character development, anachronisms, authenticity
- biographiesautobiography, autobiographies, memoir, memoirs, life stories
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- Writing Worldvoice, novelists, style, poets, tone
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Written life account
documentary · memoir · autobiography · historical record · oral history
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Speculative fiction with technological themes
speculative fiction · fairy tale · fable · high fantasy · fantasy fiction
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Factual film about reality
academic history · reference work · court testimony · official record
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