semifictionalized

“A monumental bash on the head” was how Dahl once described his accident in the Western Desert, claiming that it directly led to his becoming a writer.38 This was not just because his first published piece of writing was a semifictionalized account of the crash, but also because he suspected that the brain injuries which he received there had materially altered his personality and inclined him to creative writing.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

Edmund Morris, who with great literary flair captured the life of Theodore Roosevelt, was given the access to write an authorized biography, but he became flummoxed by the topic; he took an erratic swing by producing Dutch, a semifictionalized ruminative bio-memoir, thus fouling off his precious opportunity.

American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

Set between the mid-50s and the mid-80s, the semifictionalized story centers on a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Mafia recruit (Ray Liotta) - who narrates along with the Jewish woman (Lorraine Bracco) he eventually marries-and the other gangsters in his immediate circle (Joe Pesci,

Chicago Reader 2010

Set between the mid-50s and the mid-80s, the semifictionalized story centers on a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Mafia recruit (Ray Liotta) - who narrates along with the Jewish woman (Lorraine Bracco) he eventually marries-and the other gangsters in his immediate circle (Joe Pesci,

Chicago Reader 2010

Set between the mid-50s and the mid-80s, the semifictionalized story centers on a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Mafia recruit (Ray Liotta) - who narrates along with the Jewish woman (Lorraine Bracco) he eventually marries-and the other gangsters in his immediate circle (Joe Pesci,

Chicago Reader 2010

Set between the mid-50s and the mid-80s, the semifictionalized story centers on a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Mafia recruit (Ray Liotta) - who narrates along with the Jewish woman (Lorraine Bracco) he eventually marries-and the other gangsters in his immediate circle (Joe Pesci,

Chicago Reader 2010