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* [[Bridge to Terabithia|Katherine Paterson]] has said her childhood experiences are the reason children in her stories tend to have [[Abusive Parent|Abusive Parents]].
* [[Bridge to Terabithia|Katherine Paterson]] has said her childhood experiences are the reason children in her stories tend to have [[Abusive Parent|Abusive Parents]].
* Film director Andrea Arnold grew up in a council estate and as a result, often sets her works (''Wasp'', ''Red Road'', ''Fish Tank'') in council estates.
* Film director Andrea Arnold grew up in a council estate and as a result, often sets her works (''Wasp'', ''Red Road'', ''Fish Tank'') in council estates.
* [[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.
* [[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 ''[[Literature/The Maltese Falcon|The Maltese Falcon]]'', was a member of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
* [[Dashiell Hammett]], author of detective novels such as ''[[Red Harvest]]'', ''[[The Thin Man (novel)|The Thin Man]]'' and ''[[Literature/The Maltese Falcon|The Maltese Falcon]]'', was a member of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
* In-universe example: In the eighth of the ''Haruhi'' 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 subjcet 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).
* In-universe example: In the eighth of the ''Haruhi'' 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 subjcet 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).
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