Art and Artists in Fiction

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

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Author

Title

Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye

Oliver T. Banks

The Caravaggio Obsession

Pat Booth

Marry Me

Anthony Burgess

Byrne

A. S. Byatt

The Matisse Stories

Joyce Cary

The Horse's Mouth

Stephen Crane

The Third Violet

Jenn Crowell

Necessary Madness

Robertson Davies

What's Bred in the Bone

Lawrence Durrell

Clea

Dick Francis

To the Hilt

Paul Gallico

Snow Goose

George Dawes Green

The Juror

Kay Hooper

Finding Laura

Maureen Howard

A Lover's Almanac

Kazuo Ishiguro

An Artist of the Floating World

Erica Jong

Inventing Memory: a Novel of Mothers & Daughters

Kipling, Rudyard

The Light That Failed

Judith Krantz

Mistral's Daughter

Rosalind Laker

The Golden Tulip

Nora Lofts

Day of the Butterfly

Mary McCarthy

Cannibals & Missionaries
A Charmed Life

Richard Mason

The World of Suzie Wong

W. Somerset Maugham

The Moon and Sixpence

Iris Murdoch

Nuns and Soldiers

Robert Payne

Caravaggio

Marge Piercy

Summer People

David Plante

Annunciation

Chaim Potok

My Name is Asher Lev
The Gift of Asher Lev

Judith Merkle Riley

The Serpent Garden

Lawrence Sanders

The Second Deadly Sin

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

The Golden Rope

Anne Rivers Siddons

Hill Towns

Irving Stone

The Agony and the Ecstasy
Depths of Glory
Lust for Life

William Styron

Set This House on Fire

Anne Tyler

Celestial Navigation

Jane Urquhart

The Underpainter

Michael Weaver

Deceptions

Morris West

Vanishing Point

Niall Williams

Four Letters of Love

 

 

 

 

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