Author Archive: Marian O'Shea Wernicke

On Autobiography in Fiction            

 Readers of fiction often find themselves wondering how much of a story is based on the writer’s life. Recently, I was reading Colm Toibin’s book called On Elizabeth Bishop and came across a quotation from Kierkegaard on the delicate mixture of fiction and autobiography: “The law of delicacy, according to which an author has the […]