semiautobiographical

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Predicted to be a classic, the novel drifted into obscurity, even here where the semiautobiographical story is set.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or being a work that falls between fiction and autobiography: a semiautobiographical novel.

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  • New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr's debut novel is a poignant, semiautobiographical treatise on Hollywood and the hypocrisies of Judaism Having a Field Day —  Advocate.com Daily News
  • New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr's debut novel is a poignant, semiautobiographical treatise on Hollywood and the hypocrisies of Judaism. —  Advocate.com Daily News
  • Here's another list to spark dorm-room arguments: Premiere magazine's countdown of the It wasn't quite a massacre, but most reviewers weren't kind to 50 Cent and his semiautobiographical film debut, —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • In his semiautobiographical masterwork, "Mercy of a Rude Stream," the late novelist Henry Roth recalled his Uncle Louie's little kitchen-table "sermon" that, mainly to his mortified mother, justified his decision to join the American army in the First World War:
  • Sam Shepard's dramas always veer into the rawest of human emotions-and the semiautobiographical This is a more dramatic, complex and coherent version of the Plus: The Eyes of Babylon; Speaking Without Tongues —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
 

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