he article deals with the specificity of syntactic means of expressing emotions in ficti onal biography genre and biographical novel in particular. The author states that fictional biographies of famous people have become a popular genre of literature in recent years. While they are based on documents, facts, personal memories, they also facilitate deep immersion in the character’s inner world, social and psychological nature of the actions. The article explains the neces sity to study the language and style of fiction based on documentary sources and conduct complex literary an d linguistic analysis with the view to defining its linguistic and stylistic specificity, outlines the main genre features of a biographical novel, including correlation of fact and fiction. F or research the author chooses the biographical novel by the modem American writer Nancy Moser "Washington's Lady" in which the first-person narrative helps to focus on the inner world of the central character. It is found out that the style of writing can be characterized as relatively simple but the syntactic stylistic devices become means of expressing the character's feelings and emotions. The author makes a conclusion that the most productive syntactic means in the novel are various kinds o f repetitions, parcellated constructions and parallelisms, polysyndeton and aposi opesis. They become means o f expressing determination, doubt, concern, grief, sadness and other feeling s and emotions. Their complex use and combination with graphical arrangement of the text intensify the emotions and describe the character as multi-sided personalit