Introduction: Locating and Defining the Bio in Biofiction Michael Lackey
1. Going for the Subjective: One way to Write Biographical Fiction Barbara Mujica
2. Writing Biographical Fiction: Some Personal Reflections Jay Parini
3. On Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Fictional Portraiture Joanna Scott
4. The Rise of the Biographical Novel and the Fall of the Historical Novel Michael Lackey
5. The President’s Glands: Somatic Interiority and the Referents of Biographical Fiction in American Adulterer Catherine Belling
6. The Notable Woman in Fiction: The Afterlives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Julia Novak
Biography
Michael Lackey is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota – Morris, USA. He is a scholar of twentieth and twenty-first century intellectual, political, and literary history. He has authored and edited seven books, including The American Biographical Novel (2016); Biographical Fiction: A Reader (2016); and Truthful Fictions (2014), which contains his interviews with biographical novelists such as Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, Michael Cunningham, and Julia Alvarez.
