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== Real Life ==
* Melville went on a couple whaling voyages (and wrote books about them - ''Typee'' and ''Omoo'') before writing ''[[Moby Dick]]''.
* Beverly Cleary's job as a children's librarian undoubtedly gave her lots of insight into children's lives and thoughts.
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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] grew up in Kansas City, Missouri in the early 1900s. In ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', he sends his archprotagonist Lazarus Long on a [[Time Travel]] journey to [[My Future Self and Me|visit his childhood family]] in... 1917 Kansas City, Missouri. The amount of loving autobiographical historical detail present in these chapters is so thick it practically oozes from the page. Much of his work shows similar details of his life experience, from his long ocean voyages influencing ''[[Podkayne of Mars]]'' and ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]'' to his military and military consulting experience influencing countless stories.
* [[Dashiell Hammett]], author of detective novels such as ''[[Red Harvest]]'', ''[[The Thin Man (novel)|The Thin Man]]'' and ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'', was a member of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
▲* In-universe example: In the eighth volume of the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' novel series, the author wrote about writing, at some point the titular character states that "anyone can write" and she does in fact recruit almost everyone she knows to write for her literature magazine, while each of the characters ends up writing about a subject they do actually know about, only the ones who have the reading habit write something at least interesting, everyone else just throw random words together (and the ones who read the magazine does realize this).
* Sort of meta, but the sole programmer (!) Tarn Adams of the game [[Dwarf Fortress]] holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from Stanford. While that doesn't have much to do with dwarves, it certainly goes a long way into explaining the game's near-masochistic levels of complexity (from the point of view of someone else who would design a game). It also explains a lot about the detailed physics of the games, due to the deep connections between mathematics and physics.
* Brent Butt grew up in small town Saskatchewan. The show ''[[Corner Gas]]'' which he created and stars in is set in the small town of Dog River. Its even more authentic since it was filmed in Rouleau, Saskatchewan and featured many locals as extras in it.
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