The Intersection of Fiction and Autobiography

Pulling Fiction out of Autobiographical Fact

I believe I’ve read all the fiction Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. I have also read a good deal of biographical information about both men. As a result, I have a good sense for how much their personal lives influenced their fiction, and how many details of their lives appear in their fiction. However, those two are the exception. I don’t know enough about most authors whose works I’ve read to determine how much their fiction owes to t...