I don't know who coined the term "fictional biography," but I first heard it used a few years ago by a writer researching the lives of Albert Einstein and his first wife, the Yugoslav mathematician Mileva Maric. The writer had crisscrossed central Europe, poured over manuscripts in dungeon-like archives, and conducted hundreds of interviews, all in the interest of a fictional biography--a book nestled very precariously between fact and fiction. She had her facts down pat: the correspondence, train schedules, and childhood photographs. What she did not have, and gave herself license to conceit, were the myriad details that uphold the façade of a life--any life--like the... More >>>