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* ''[[Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade]]'' was writen by Barthe Declements while she was an elementary school teacher, and a school psychologist. The result is one of the most realistic depictions of fifth grade (and under) kids both in AND out of school.
* Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, the creator of the ''[[Chalet School]]'' series, was a teacher herself. She actually tried to start up her own school (in Hereford, which became one of the Chalet School's locations), although unlike its fictional equivalent, the school was unsuccessful in the end. Like Joey, the series' heroine, she also converted to Catholicism.
* [[Charles Dickens]] knew a lot about debtors' prisons - his father had been in one.
* It shouldn't come a surprise that [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] was [[Con Lang|an expert in linguistics]].
** The battles in his stories were based on his experiences in [[World War One]].
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** Of course, the player can also explore a (fictionalized) version of the Bethesda Studios offices in the game.
* [[Naoko Takeuchi]] used her experience in working as a [[Miko]] in a shrine as the basis for the character of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'''s Rei Hino, a [[Magical Girl]] who works as a miko and incorporates Shinto elements into her attacks.
* [[Mark Twain]] worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi before he became a writer, and the Mississippi river appears as a set-piece in many of his works, most notably ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]], [[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]], The Gilded Age,'' and ''Life on the Mississippi
** Don't forget that "mark twain" is an order that was often heard on riverboats, telling someone to record ("mark") the deepest part of the river ("the twain").
* Television Producer [[David E. Kelley]], creator of ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', ''[[The Practice]]'', and ''[[Boston Legal]]'' (all Boston based lawyer shows) actually has a degree in law from Boston University.
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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.
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* 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.
* ''[[The Oatmeal]]'' web comic is focused on numerous subjects that have bugged artist/writer Matthew Inman over the course of his life, most famously a [[Take That]] rant towards his clientele when he worked as a web designer for 14 years.
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* Joe Haldeman has been a regular rider on Amtrak between Boston and Florida for about forty years; parts of several novels were written while en route on those trains. In ''The Hemmingway Hoax'', part of the action takes place on... a train from Boston to Miami.
* Sharon Lee has worked several positions in academia over the years, including administrative aide to a dean. This might help to explain why a number of [[Liaden Universe]] stories are set at colleges or schools of one kind or another, and why those settings all feel so authentic.
* ''[[Ars Magica]]'' from Atlas Games has several supplements whose entire purpose is to Show Their Work, most notable for this being Art et Academe. Most of the authors have some qualification in Medieval History or a similar topic.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', interestingly enough. While it's traditionally infamous for many [[Did Not Do the Research|really bizarre things]], starting with Gary Gygax's ideas of ballistics and weapon weight tables, many authors and designers had experience in fields that turned out to be relevant - and it shows.
** Bruce R. Cordell earned a degree in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology from the University of Colorado. Hence the greatness of ''The Illithiad'' and other books he wrote for ''Monstrous Arcana''.
** Ed Greenwood, ''the'' author of [[Forgotten Realms]], is a librarian and used to fence. This shows. "[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13186&whichpage=35#297253 Many of Ed's original players either worked in breweries or brewed their own]" - which also shows: you're not going to run into "[[All Beer Is Ale]]" thing in Volo's Guides or other {{sourcebook}}s by Greenwood or anyone who consulted with main developers. His novels and sourcebooks mention breweries and specific beverages fairly often, some got whole lists of local beverages - not just names, but the specifics of how it tastes, what it was made of and (sometimes) who tend to drink this. There are references to (and in [[epigraph]]s quotations from) [[In-Universe]] books and ballads, usually involving at least a hint at their context, if it's not completely obvious from the text and title.
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