Biopic

This film came and went without much notice but has a great cast and focuses on Thomas Wolfe’s time in New York around publisher Maxwell Perkins, and authors Fitzgerald and Hemingway.

A biopic of poet and author Elizabeth Bishop ’34, who traveled widely, but extended a two-week stay in Brazil to fifteen years, beginning in 1951, in part due to her relationship with Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares.

Semi-autobiographical film on Augusten Burroughs’s childhood, with him living under the care of an oddball psychiatrist in the doctor’s home.

Made-for-TV docudrama based on journalist Morton Kondracke’s memoir about his wife, who died of Parkinson’s in 2004.

This British movie, about Dylan Thomas, centers on John Brinnin.

Solid drama about writer Shirley Jackson, portrayed as mentally unstable and in a complicated relationship her husband, a professor at Bennington.

This is a fairly bloated screen musical about Gertrude Lawrence, starring Julie Andrews at the height of her career.

Three scenes from this TV movie on the life of Jackie Kennedy meet her at different stages of her life: just out of college, being courted by the Kennedys, and as the First Lady.