It's Called "Fiction"

When I do book-signings at which I recite chunks of my novels from memory, there’s usually at least one audience member who approaches me afterward and asks me if the Scottish stories are autobiographical. (It happened again at St. Johns Booksellers last Friday.) I’ve lived in the U.S. for longer than I lived in Scotland as an adult, but I don’t get asked the same about the U.S. stories, perhaps because I still have a strong Scottish accent.

I wonder if Thomas Harris gets ask...