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** The novel ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' was an account of <s>getting drunk</s> life experiences while living in Spain after WWI.
** And, of course, there's ''[[The Old Man and The Sea (Literature)|The Old Man and The Sea]]'', which is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|a story about an old man… and the sea...]].
* When [[Spider Robinson]] wrote his first story, ''The Guy with the Eyes'', he didn't want to do any research or try to bluff his way through. So he went through all the things that he had sound personal experience of, and decided to use his knowledge of bars and drink. He imagined the bar that he'd most like to drink in, gave it a first person narrator [[Author Avatar|based on himself]], and set his tale involving an {{spoiler|alien assassin}} there. Thus began the ''[[
* F. Scott Fitzgerald based many of his novels on his own life.
* [[FoxTrot|Bill Amend]] majored in physics and won a mathematics prize in college. Needless to say, most of the jokes involve advanced mathematics and physics formulae. One of the more recurring high school teachers is for Physics.
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