Fictionalized bios

[Jennifer]

Fictionalized bios of celebrities can be fun and are getting more popular all the time. Here are a few interesting ones. Please add any you like to the list.

[Jennifer]

I just read a particularly enjoyable fictionalized celebrity novel featuring opera star Maria Callas, first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis and notorious Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Here's my review: I found this fictionalized story about the Jackie Kennedy, Ari Onassis, Maria Callas love triangle to be very entertaining. The author was also effective in fleshing out each of these iconic figures who are often viewed as one dimensional. Maria Callas, who usually gets a bad rap in the media is portrayed in a much more sympathetic and realistic light, while Jackie Kennedy Onassis is taken off her pedestal and made more relatable. Ari Onassis was presented as a villain you love to hate. He struck me an unlikely male hero for a romantic novel like this and remembering the real Onassis made the bedroom scenes a little difficult to get through. Another thing that bothered me were some of the liberties the author took, such as making a major storyline of the rumor that Callas and Onassis had a secret love child who died at birth. I realize this is a novel and expect much of the story to be fictional or based on speculation but this was such a big part of the story I fear many readers will accept it as fact. Overall, I really enjoyed this novel which offers a escape into an exclusive world full of drama, passion, colorful characters.