Thinly disguised autobiography examples

By the time I reached my teens, I was taken with the idea of writing a fictionalized autobiography, but as my college roommate, Barry, observed, no one will want to read my autobiography if I have led a dull life.

He was right, of course, but I had already considered that problem and thought I had solved it with the novel???if overly precious???notion of setting my autobiographical account in the nineteenth century even though I lived in the twentieth.

This would have required historical research to figure out what would be the same and what would be different if I had lived in the previous century.

Thinly disguised autobiography examples for students

But the advantage would have been that I would be using the familiar framework of my life.

The main problem in an autobiographical novel is what to include, and what to leave out, only creating a narrative out of the more entertaining bits.

So far, I have not written that autobiographical novel, but I have admired those willing to attempt such a daunting project. Vardis Fisher is a writ