A book about the Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun from 1922
https://archive.org/details/knuthamsun00larsuoft/page/n7
Of course this was before he became a nazi, but it is intersting anyway because he had already written some of his best works. Someone could perhaps read just the chapter called "The author of Hunger" and add that to a non-fiction collection? The whole book might be too much?