Best Historical Novels About Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino

1895–1926

Rudolph Valentino emigrated to the United States and worked in New York before entering motion pictures. Films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik and Blood and Sand established his image as a romantic screen idol.

His sudden death in 1926 provoked intense public mourning and reinforced his place in silent-film legend. Fiction may accurately use his celebrity and films as period background, while direct relationships with invented characters are speculative.

Historical novels and book series featuring Rudolph Valentino (1 series)

American Century in Order

by Gilbert Morris 7 books 4.3(1,763)

The American Century follows the Stuart family from the ambitions of Progressive-Era America through two world wars, depression, Korea and the upheavals of the 1960s. Successive generations leave the Arkansas hills for cities, battlefields, Hollywood and public life, carrying family loyalties into a rapidly changing nation. The series…