Sunday, August 29, 2010

10 Novels about Novelists

















I'm in the mood for making lists. :) So, here comes a list of 10+ novels about novelists -and poets. These are all written by others than the novelist/poet the novel is about. Some of these books I have read already, some I own, but have not read yet, and the rest I want to read at some point.
  1. The Brontë sisters
    Jude Morgan: The Taste of Sorrow

  2. Pearl S. Buck
    Anchee Min: Pearl of China

  3. Lewis Carroll
    Katie Roiphe: She Still Haunts Me

  4. Emily Dickinson
    Paola Kaufmann: The Sister

  5. Fyodor Dosteyevsky
    Leonid Tsypkin: Summer in Baden-Baden

  6. Henry James
    David Lodge: Author, Author
    Colm Tóibín: The Master

  7. Murasaki Shikibu
    Liza Dalby: The Tale of Murasaki

  8. Sylvia Plath
    Kate Moses: Wintering

  9. Sappho
    Erica Jong: Sappho's Leap

  10. Virginia Woolf
    Michael Cunningham: The Hours
    Susan Sellers: Vanessa & Virginia
Which other non-autobiographical novels about novelists or poets would you recommend me?

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