The autobiographical novel is a funny creature. We associate it with the dramas of youth, with first steps: “David Copperfield,” for instance, or “The Catcher in the Rye.” In a preface he composed ...

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Lawrence Block has published over 200 books. In the 1970′s he wrote a novel about a private eye named Matthew Scudder. At the time he never imagined that 50 years later he would still be writing about ...

The main character of White Light was a math professor, closely modeled on me, and the setting was very much like Geneseo. The practice of writing science fiction about real life is what I came to ...