Autobiographical experiences shared by fictional characters and the writers who created them
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse 5) and Kurt Vonnegut: both survived the fire bombing of Dresden
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens: something of a veiled autobiography
Richard Hooker (ne Hornberger) and his creation, Hawkeye Pierce, were both Army surgeons during the Korean War
Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun) and J.G. Ballard: Ballard grew up in a Japanese internment camp.
Perry Mason and Erle Stanley Gardner: Gardner was an attorney.
TS Garp and John Irving: Both were wrestlers in high school
Dick Francis and his creation Sid Halley were both successful jockeys who had to find new careers after suffering serious racing injuries
Khaled Hosseini and his character Amir in The Kite Runner both grew up in well-to-do families in Kabul and moved to California as teens in the late 1970s
Autobiographical experiences shared by fictional characters and the writers who created them
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse 5) and Kurt Vonnegut: both survived the fire bombing of Dresden
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens: something of a veiled autobiography
Richard Hooker (ne Hornberger) and his creation, Hawkeye Pierce, were both Army surgeons during the Korean War
Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun) and J.G. Ballard: Ballard grew up in a Japanese internment camp.
Perry Mason and Erle Stanley Gardner: Gardner was an attorney.
TS Garp and John Irving: Both were wrestlers in high school
Dick Francis and his creation Sid Halley were both successful jockeys who had to find new careers after suffering serious racing injuries
Khaled Hosseini and his character Amir in The Kite Runner both grew up in well-to-do families in Kabul and moved to California as teens in the late 1970s
Temperance Brennan and Kathy Reichs are both forensic scientists. Reichs has said her novels are based on her real life experiences.
Autobiographical experiences shared by fictional characters and the writers who created them
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse 5) and Kurt Vonnegut: both survived the fire bombing of Dresden
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens: something of a veiled autobiography
Richard Hooker (ne Hornberger) and his creation, Hawkeye Pierce, were both Army surgeons during the Korean War
Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun) and J.G. Ballard: Ballard grew up in a Japanese internment camp.
Perry Mason and Erle Stanley Gardner: Gardner was an attorney.
TS Garp and John Irving: Both were wrestlers in high school
Dick Francis and his creation Sid Halley were both successful jockeys who had to find new careers after suffering serious racing injuries
Khaled Hosseini and his character Amir in The Kite Runner both grew up in well-to-do families in Kabul and moved to California as teens in the late 1970s
Temperance Brennan and Kathy Reichs are both forensic scientists. Reichs has said her novels are based on her real life experiences.
Scarlett O’Hara and Margaret Mitchell: both were Irish Catholic from prominent families who scandalized conservative Atlanta society at a war benefit dance.
Scarlett stuns the Atlanta Old Guard by dancing with Rhett Butler, who,has bid for her, while still wearing mourning for her recently deceased husband. Mitchell scandalized the conservative faction at a WWI hospital fundraiser by performing a Danse Apache, deemed wildly inappropriate for its violence and sexual suggestiveness.
Autobiographical experiences shared by fictional characters and the writers who created them
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse 5) and Kurt Vonnegut: both survived the fire bombing of Dresden
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens: something of a veiled autobiography
Richard Hooker (ne Hornberger) and his creation, Hawkeye Pierce, were both Army surgeons during the Korean War
Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun) and J.G. Ballard: Ballard grew up in a Japanese internment camp.
Perry Mason and Erle Stanley Gardner: Gardner was an attorney.
TS Garp and John Irving: Both were wrestlers in high school
Dick Francis and his creation Sid Halley were both successful jockeys who had to find new careers after suffering serious racing injuries
Khaled Hosseini and his character Amir in The Kite Runner both grew up in well-to-do families in Kabul and moved to California as teens in the late 1970s
Temperance Brennan and Kathy Reichs are both forensic scientists. Reichs has said her novels are based on her real life experiences.
Scarlett O’Hara and Margaret Mitchell: both were Irish Catholic from prominent families who scandalized conservative Atlanta society at a war benefit dance.
Lucy Snowe (Villette) and Charlotte Bronte: both were English girls who studied at boarding school in Brussels, and fell in love with a professor.
Autobiographical experiences shared by fictional characters and the writers who created them
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse 5) and Kurt Vonnegut: both survived the fire bombing of Dresden
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens: something of a veiled autobiography
Richard Hooker (ne Hornberger) and his creation, Hawkeye Pierce, were both Army surgeons during the Korean War
Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun) and J.G. Ballard: Ballard grew up in a Japanese internment camp.
Perry Mason and Erle Stanley Gardner: Gardner was an attorney.
TS Garp and John Irving: Both were wrestlers in high school
Dick Francis and his creation Sid Halley were both successful jockeys who had to find new careers after suffering serious racing injuries
Khaled Hosseini and his character Amir in The Kite Runner both grew up in well-to-do families in Kabul and moved to California as teens in the late 1970s
Temperance Brennan and Kathy Reichs are both forensic scientists. Reichs has said her novels are based on her real life experiences.
Scarlett O’Hara and Margaret Mitchell: both were Irish Catholic from prominent families who scandalized conservative Atlanta society at a war benefit dance.
Lucy Snowe (Villette) and Charlotte Bronte: both were English girls who studied at boarding school in Brussels, and fell in love with a professor.
Matt Groenig and Bart Simpson both had parents named Homer and Marge and a sister named Lisa.
Autobiographical experiences shared by fictional characters and the writers who created them
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse 5) and Kurt Vonnegut: both survived the fire bombing of Dresden
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens: something of a veiled autobiography
Richard Hooker (ne Hornberger) and his creation, Hawkeye Pierce, were both Army surgeons during the Korean War
Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun) and J.G. Ballard: Ballard grew up in a Japanese internment camp.
Perry Mason and Erle Stanley Gardner: Gardner was an attorney.
TS Garp and John Irving: Both were wrestlers in high school
Dick Francis and his creation Sid Halley were both successful jockeys who had to find new careers after suffering serious racing injuries
Khaled Hosseini and his character Amir in The Kite Runner both grew up in well-to-do families in Kabul and moved to California as teens in the late 1970s
Temperance Brennan and Kathy Reichs are both forensic scientists. Reichs has said her novels are based on her real life experiences.
Scarlett O’Hara and Margaret Mitchell: both were Irish Catholic from prominent families who scandalized conservative Atlanta society at a war benefit dance.
Lucy Snowe (Villette) and Charlotte Bronte: both were English girls who studied at boarding school in Brussels, and fell in love with a professor.
Matt Groenig and Bart Simpson both had parents named Homer and Marge and a sister named Lisa.
Norman Maclean’s ‘A River Runs Through It and Other Stories’ - Both Maclean and the main character were minister’s sons, lived in Montana, had one brother, and loved fly fishing.
Autobiographical experiences shared by fictional characters and the writers who created them
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse 5) and Kurt Vonnegut: both survived the fire bombing of Dresden
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens: something of a veiled autobiography
Richard Hooker (ne Hornberger) and his creation, Hawkeye Pierce, were both Army surgeons during the Korean War
Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun) and J.G. Ballard: Ballard grew up in a Japanese internment camp.
Perry Mason and Erle Stanley Gardner: Gardner was an attorney.
TS Garp and John Irving: Both were wrestlers in high school
Dick Francis and his creation Sid Halley were both successful jockeys who had to find new careers after suffering serious racing injuries
Khaled Hosseini and his character Amir in The Kite Runner both grew up in well-to-do families in Kabul and moved to California as teens in the late 1970s
Temperance Brennan and Kathy Reichs are both forensic scientists. Reichs has said her novels are based on her real life experiences.
Author Susan Conant and her detective character Holly Winter both own Alaskan malamutes, and are active in that breed’s rescue.