The Newcomes is noteworthy for its critical portrayal of the " marriage market ," while Philip is noteworthy for its semi-autobiographical depiction of Thackeray's early life, in which the author partially regains some of his early satirical zest.

This semi-autobiographical novel is set against the background of a very stormy epoch in the history of Estonia, from when the Soviets occupy the country in 1940, the German occupation the next year, the notorious bombing of central Tallinn by the Soviet airforce on March 9th 1944, and a further thirty years of life in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

While Drift is about an Irish Catholic family, the setting is Liverpool, and in the 1930s Hanley wrote largely about the Irish community in Liverpool, especially with the semi-autobiographical novels about the Fury family, The Furys ( 1935 ), The Secret Journey ( 1936 ), and Our Time is Gone ( 1940 ), as well as Ebb and Flood ( 1932 ).

The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name.

Wright's semi-autobiographical Black Boy ( 1945 ) described his early life from Roxie through his move to Chicago, his clashes with his Seventh-day Adventist family, his troubles with white employers and social isolation.

When he was six years old, his mother died and he subsequently grew up under the auspices of the English expatriate community and was particularly involved with the so-called Scorpioni, who inspired his semi-autobiographical 1999 film Tea With Mussolini.

Wells wrote in his 1909 semi-autobiographical novel Tono-Bungay, " Three energetic young men of the hooligan type, in neck-wraps and caps, were packing wooden cases with papered-up bottles, amidst much straw and confusion ".

" He turned to semi-autobiographical fiction with the three short novels in I Love You, I Hate You, Drop Dead!

The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.

* Author Sherman Alexie was born with Hydrocephalus, which he wrote about in his semi-autobiographical junior fiction novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

This movie is based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name, written by Abagnale with the help of Stan Redding.

The semi-autobiographical Educating Rita was turned into a 1983 film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

Initially Day lived a bohemian life, with one common-law marriage and an abortion, which she later described in her semi-autobiographical novel, The Eleventh Virgin ( 1924 )— a book she later regretted writing.

Maurice Bardèche, a French writer of fascist sympathies, wrote about his meeting with Yockey in his semi-autobiographical novel Suzanne et le taudis.

Through the end of June 2009, Metcalf starred with French Stewart in Justin Tanner's play, Voice Lessons, in Hollywood before beginning rehearsals to play Kate Jerome in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, directed by David Cromer.

* La mauvaise réputation – " the bad reputation " – a semi-autobiographical tune with its catchy lyric: " Mais les braves gens n ' aiment pas que l ' on suive une autre route qu ' eux " ( But the good folks don't like it if you take a different road than they do.

In 2005, Watts starred and co-produced with director / screenwriter Scott Coffey her next film, the semi-autobiographical drama Ellie Parker, which depicted the struggle of an Australian actress in Hollywood.

These deal with a variety of subjects, sometimes semi-autobiographical, in a variety of styles.

MacDonald also published three other semi-autobiographical books: Anybody Can Do Anything, recounting her life in the Depression trying to find work ; The Plague and I, describing her nine-month stay at the Firlands tuberculosis sanitarium ; and Onions in the Stew, about her life on Vashon Island with her second husband and daughters during the war years.

He has written semi-autobiographical stories and anecdotes of his time with the Gordon Highlanders in the “ McAuslan ” series.

Although London was a socialist, he invested the semi-autobiographical character of Martin Eden with strong individualism.

Highlighting of the military aspects and success story for German arms is also evident with the publication of various pulp semi-autobiographical works in 1939, most notably:

It is a semi-autobiographical film about her life as an actress who is looked at as a sex object, so she goes through a busy phase of her life by travelling across Europe to rescue a friend from an abusive relationship and she also wins an award while in Milan, then she travels to Los Angeles to meet with greedy film producers and also falls in love with a rock and roll star, then finds out she is pregnant, then begins to use drugs to help her feel better.

Her directorial debut, the semi-autobiographical Channel 4 drama The Unloved, written in collaboration with Tony Grisoni, was first broadcast on 17 May 2009.

It is a semi-autobiographical film inspired by Reed's life at age 12 and 13 with Wood's character " Tracy " being loosely based upon Reed.

The article asserted that The Painted Bird, assumed by some to be semi-autobiographical, was largely a work of fiction.

The semi-autobiographical film was written and directed by former Rolling Stone columnist Cameron Crowe and featured portrayals of publisher Jann Wenner ( Eion Bailey ), editor Ben Fong-Torres ( Terry Chen ), David Felton ( Rainn Wilson ) and others in Rolling Stones 1970s San Francisco offices.

He also began publishing a series of semi-autobiographical works, the first of which was Antimémoires ( 1967 ).

Her first foray outside children's literature was Bildhuggarens dotter ( Sculptor's Daughter ), a semi-autobiographical book written in 1968.

Though still censored, she was concerned to re-construct work that had been destroyed or suppressed during the purges or which had posed a threat to the life of her son in the camps, such as the lost, semi-autobiographical play Enûma Elish.

A semi-autobiographical story of her life was depicted in Too Much, Too Soon, starring Errol Flynn as John Barrymore

Jean Genet described the experiences of a thirty-year-old prisoner at Fontevrault in his semi-autobiographical novel, Miracle de la rose, although there is no evidence that Genet was ever imprisoned there himself.

This era and setting was described in detail in the semi-autobiographical novel, Life Amongst the Modocs, written by poet and novelist Joaquin Miller.

This was Carney's only Twilight Zone appearance but, nearly two years earlier, on January 22, 1959, he starred in Rod Serling's semi-autobiographical story, " The Velvet Alley ", the eighth of ten Serling teleplays featured on Playhouse 90, the most prestigious of the many live drama anthology series from the Golden Age of Television.

Although fictionalized, the film was semi-autobiographical, based on his childhood growing up in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 1930s.

In 1953, Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, was published.

The result of his experiences was his first, semi-autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth ( 1917 ), in which he remembered and reflected on his schooldays.

Retaining this semi-autobiographical trend, Coupling was based on him meeting his wife, Sue Vertue, and on the issues that arise in new relationships.

Hwang decided to turn the experience into a semi-autobiographical play which pits him as the main character in a media farce about mistaken racial identity, which was ( oddly enough ) one of the main plots of Face Value.

His last major work, written after the death of his wife in 1924, was Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt (" The Wife of Steffen Tromholt ", 1927 ), a semi-autobiographical novel.

Rugby School is one of England's oldest and most prestigious public schools, and was the setting of Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical masterpiece Tom Brown's Schooldays.

One constant in the director's early years was his interest in visual arts ( namely, painting and Super-8 filmmaking ); while still in school he began making semi-autobiographical shorts costing between 30 and 50 dollars.

The film, which was taken from Portland street writer Walt Curtis ' semi-autobiographical novella, featured some of the director's hallmarks, notably an unfulfilled romanticism, a dry sense of the absurd, and the refusal to treat homosexuality as something deserving of judgment.

The semi-autobiographical script that Tati wrote in 1956 was released internationally as an animated film The Illusionist in ( 2010 ).

His stage debut was in 1977, when he was cast as the young Steve Allen in Allen's semi-autobiographical play The Wake.