Lose yourself in these 9 historical novels that bring to life people and places from the past. From Hollywood’s earliest female movie stars to treasonous spies, these characters will transport you to another time and place—and that’s something truly magical. The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood’s earliest female legends—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford. It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband for…