If you write a biography on a fictional person would it go under the biography or fiction section in library?

Question

If you write a biography on a fictional person or character would it go under the biography or the fiction section in the library?

Answer 1

Since the character is fiction, then any thing they did would also be fiction, hence the Biography would be a fictional account, hence the book would be in the fiction section.

Example: Phillip Jose Farmer wrote a Biography of Doc Savage, a character from a 1930-40 era series of books by Kenneth Robeson. This stand alone Biography (Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life - Bantam SF, Q8834) is found in the fiction section.

Farmer has also done other biographies of fictional characters such as Lord Greystoke (from the Tarzan Books)

Answer 2

If the biography is written as a resource guide, it might be placed in non-fiction. For example, many Lord of the Rings guides and other guides are placed in non-fiction resource sections.

But if you're writing the biography as a supplement to the fiction -- that is, you're staying within the universe of the story where the character is "real" then it would be in fiction.

Answer 3

Writing biography of a fictional person is an excellent exercise! Especially if it's a character in a well-known book, it could be interesting and controversial.

Answer 4

It probably should go under fiction. But the only times a bio would be needed (on a fictional person) would be as part of the story being told. Not a stand alone book.

Answer 5

definitely fiction. as ur character doesnt exist!