Cisco Writers Club Rendezvous With Writing

by Vera Day https:// twitter. com/ VeraDayAuthor

The auto-novel is a fictionalized autobiography. It’s a genre that’s been around awhile with novels such as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Charles Bukowski’s Post Office. On the Road is based on Kerouac’s travels across the country with his friends in the late ’40s and into 1950. Post Office is based on Bukowski’s experience with women, gambling, alcohol, and twelve years as a postal worker.

In both books, the authors write from a first-person point of view and add subplots and change the names to protect identities. (Actually, in Kerouac’s first draft which still exists today, he didn’t bother to change the names.)