Not quite the same thing, but Nelson DeMille’s book The General’s Daughter was turned into a movie starring John Travolta as an Army CID agent investigating the murder of said daughter. In a book written later, The Lion’s Game, the main character is flying from NYC to California; the in-flight movie isn’t named, but it’s described as “starring John Travolta playing an Army CID guy”.
Actually, it’s more likely that the origin of Dick’s last name is English or Scottish. Yes,
”dick” means “fat” in German. It’s probably not where his last name comes from though.
Yeah probably. That was his justification though.
Edgar Rice Burroughs inserts himself in some of the Mars books as John Carter’s nephew.
I recently ran across a movie example. We were watching They Live a couple of nights ago, and there’s a scene where a television commentator is complaining about sex and violence in the movies. He says that filmmakers such as George Romero and John Carpenter have to show some restraint.
Other characters in Michael Connelly’s books that include the Lincoln Lawyer refer to the movie as though it’s a documentary.
Connelly, in addition to shout-outs to other fiction writers, gives his real-life police officer consultants cameo roles in his Harry Bosch novels.
“Nephew”, not nephew.
“I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.” Through the rest of the narrative he refers to him as “Captain Carter”.
John Barth showed up as a character in Chimera and in Letters.
In Heinlein’s Pursuit of the Pankera (and in The Number of the Beast, I’m pretty sure - the two books are very similar), there’s a discussion of which fictional universe they should head for:
Did Heinlein get his name in the hat?”
“Four votes, but split. Two for his Future History, two for Stranger in a Strange Land. So he didn’t make it.”
“Well I didn’t vote for Stranger and I’ll refrain from embarrassing anyone by asking who did. My god, the things some writers will do for money.”
Heinlein also refers to himself in “The Number of the Beast.” Multiple times in multiple ways. My favorite is when the characters slag him for writing “Stranger In A Strange Land.”
“What some authors will do for money!”
I told you they were similar!
(Number of the Beast and Pursuit of the Pankera start out identically, then vary substantially (Pankera has way more Barsoom and Lensman stuff - Number has the British Mars prison colony) - but even when the grand plot varies, a lot of the individual conversations are identical.
I mean, he’s in The Dark Tower series.
John Barth put himself in a couple of his novels. In Chimera, he is conjured up by Shehezade to help her storytelling. He’s not mentioned by name but the description matches.
He is also one of the letter writers in Letters, writing to the other characters.
David Lodge does something like this in Thinks…: a writing instructor asks her students to write a short story in the style of an author of their choice, and we see several examples with the spoofed author’s name just-barely anonymized (e.g. “H**ry J*mes”). The last example has no name attached, but the style is clearly meant to be a parody of Lodge himself.
Jay Kristoff in his final book of the Nevernight Chronicles, Darkdawn, he includes the whole trilogy as a book series in the book. I can’t remember if he specifically namedrops himself but the protagonist skims the series then jumps to the book we are in to find out what she needs to do. The Spaceball-ification, in what was some strong fiction, was not my favorite part. Although his critiques on himself were indeed humourous.
But is that specifically Burroughs, or an unnamed narrator who frames the story?
The sentence I quoted is from the foreword, which is written as a letter to readers. It begins
and ends
W. Somerset Maugham wrote himself as a character discussing the world with Larry Darrell in The Razor’s Edge.
Not quite the same thing, but in the TV show Bones, which was based on a series of books by Kathy Reichs, Temperance Brennan (the character in the KR books) is an author of similar books, and her character is named Kathy Reichs.
In Rebecca Elliott’s “Owl Diaries” children’s book series, there’s a cameo appearance by a children’s book author named Rebecca Owliott.