Teen Fiction Based on Real People

The Poet Slave of Cuba by Margarita Engle

• Fictionalizes the life of poet Juan Franscisco Manzano in poems.

Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett

• Percy and  M ary Shelley live an unconventional life for 1800's Europeans.

Your Own Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill

• Sylvia Plath's life in poems from her childhood to her marriage to Ted Hughes to her eventual suicide.

Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer

• Anne Hathaway's life before and after Will.

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer

• The story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped by Comanches as a child and "rescued" as an adult.

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

• Las Marisposas were real revolutionaries in the Dominican Republic in the 1960's.