The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. This kind of novel concentrates,on the experiences a person had during his lifetime, the people they meet and the incidents which occurred. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictional genre, the novel. These reimagined biographies are sometimes called semi-biographical novels, to distinguish the relative historicity of the work from other biographical novels