ABSTRACT
The first major surge in biofiction happened in the 1930s, with first-rate works from a wide variety of authors, such as Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Heinrich Mann, Robert Graves, Arna Bontemps, Bertolt Brecht, and Zora Neale Hurston. In this chapter, I briefly examine five biographical novels in order to clarify how authors from the time experimented with the literary form.
