Fictional biography books

Sal Paradise, a stand-in for Kerouac, travels across 1950s America with his best friend Dean (stand-in for Neal Cassady), crashing on couches, taking drugs, and doing the whole Beat Generation Thing. The novel is based entirely on notebooks Kerouac kept during his real-life travels with his friends, and features a disguised Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The novel was famously first written on a single scroll of paper 120 feet long, with no paragraph breaks, and would go on to be regarded as the defining text of a generation.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

In this beloved YA novel that author Alexie has stated is “about seventy-eight percent true“,  we follow Junior, a Native American boy gro Fictional autobiography definition.