Frank Heynick has argued from a study of the journal notes of Ayn Rand made in the late 1930s and of incidents in her 1943 novel The Fountainhead, that Raymond Hood's career and works provided fodder for her fictional architect Peter Keating.

A fictional story in one of their journal articles illustrates this fact:

The suggested plot of I, Libertine is remarkably similar to Boswell's account of his real-life adventures ; booksellers may have believed I, Libertine was a fictional attempt to cash in on the interest in Georgian England that Boswell's million-selling journal had created.

Langford revisited the idea in a fictional FAQ on the images, published by the science journal Nature in 1999.

In 2008, Good created a new website entitled Dear San Diego, on which he writes fictional journal entries.

Unfortunately many of the above stories come from Grace's own highly coloured, exaggerated and partly fictional Journal of my life during the French Revolution ( London: Richard Bentley, 1859 ) and the historian Horace Bleackley has shown that large sections of the journal have no basis in truth.

Written in the form of journal entries, it follows 30-year-old Antoine Roquentin who, returned from years of travel, settles in the fictional French seaport town of Bouville to finish his research on the life of an 18th-century political figure.

Robert Frobisher, for instance, feels that Ewing's purported journal is too neatly structured to be genuine ; " Half Lives " is implied to be a fictional adventure novel submitted to Timothy Cavendish's literary agency.

In Marlatt's novel, this is achieved through journal entries of a fictional character who represents a form of reality for women both in the past and in the present.

In early 1998, Ratliff created a website, Ryan Johnson's Star Wars Prequel Rumors, which featured journal entries from the fictional Ryan, who described his day-to-day activities and often wrote at length about his wife and best friend.

The author evokes the form of a memoir by inserting fictional newspaper articles and journal entries, along with actual events.

The official website, www. rpoint. com, carried several fictional articles such as journal written by an American war correspondent, statements made by various soldiers who witnessed events from the film, radio transmission received by Korean soldiers, internet news links about missing Korean soldiers in Vietnam, and the fictional timeline of R-Point.

Category: Books written in fictional dialects

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

The best known fictional representation of the Emperor Claudius were the books I, Claudius and Claudius the God ( published in 1934 and 1935 ) by Robert Graves, both written in the first-person to give the reader the impression that they are Claudius ' autobiography.

Corum Jhaelen Irsei (" the Prince in the Scarlet Robe ") is the name of a fictional fantasy hero in a series of two trilogies written by author Michael Moorcock.

During the Gerald Ford administration, characters would be shown speaking to Ford at press conferences, and fictional dialogue supposedly spoken by Ford would be written as coming " off-panel ".

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

Since Lemony Snicket is both the fictional narrator of the stories as well as the author's pseudonym, it creates a false sense that the stories are written from truth.

The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

The essay is written in the first-person by a fictional historical narrator in 2034, and interweaves history from the politics of pre-and post-war Britain with those of fictional future events in the short ( 1960 onward ) and long term ( 2020 onward ).

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 ( when it was written ) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

In addition, Jefferson Swycaffer has written several novels set in the " Concordat " fictional universe he originally developed for his Traveller campaign.

James Joyce included a villanelle ostensibly written by his adolescent fictional alter-ego Stephen Dedalus in his 1914 novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, probably to show the immaturity of Stephen's literary abilities.

Academic historians often regard Eckert's books, which are written in the style of novels, to be unreliable, as they contain things like dialogue that is clearly fictional.

Johann Peter Schickele ( born July 17, 1935 ) is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring music written by Schickele, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach.

* The Wizengamot, a fictional organisation in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling, derives its name from the Witenagemot.

Another use of a pseudonym in literature is to present a story as being written by the fictional characters in the story.

Severus Snape is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling.

She features in a fictional autobiography, written by Alice Walworth Graham, of Elizabeth, the daughter of Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick and later the wife of Thomas of Astley, 3rd Lord Astley ; the book is entitled The Vows of the Peacock.

Whatever his original assignment, the fictional private eye ends up by investigating and solving a crime, usually a murder.

* Austin Moon, fictional character in Austin & Ally, portrayed by Ross Lynch

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

The Hollywood film Air Force One ( film ) starring Harrison Ford recounts the fictional story of the hijacking of the famous aircraft by six Kazakh ultra-nationalist terrorists.

* Ark ( Noon Universe ), a fictional planet in a series of novels by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

* In the 1982 film Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, the main offices of the fictional Tyrell Corporation ( a Megacorp ) resemble a hyperstructure.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

* Aba ( Dune ), a type of robe in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert

* A fictional river mentioned in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This consisted of a mock game against the fictional player " Systemsson ", supposedly played and annotated by Nimzowitsch himself.

The poem deals with legends, was composed for entertainment, and does not separate between fictional elements and real historic events, such as the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia.

These have sometimes been identified as another, separate work, the Ezra Memorial ( EM ), but other scholars believe the EM to be fictional and heavily altered by later editors.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.