Fictography is a new literary term. A fictography would appear to be a fictionalized biography; a biography written about a fictional character. Although the term fictography is a relatively new one, the writing of fictographies is not. Perhaps a particularly famous example of a fictography would be Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathon Swift but presented as being written by Lemuel Gulliver; the novel's main character.
The appeal of writing a fictography could be that it gives the author great freedom in what they write; whether they want to exaggerate parts of a story, suppress it or alter it in anyway. Writing in a biographical, or even autobiographical style, the author has the potential to give something fictional more real.
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