Query: Debut novels that are non-biographical but are about writers
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Women's Room
Hygiene and the Assassin
Bunker 13
A Certain Hunger
The World is Round (novel)
A Smuggler's Bible
Kissing Shakespeare
Lady Lazarus (novel)
Edwin Mullhouse
The Light That Failed
Evidence from documents: The Women's Room: It launched French as a major participant in the feminist movement and, while French states it is not autobiographical, the book reflects many autobiographical elements.
Hygiene and the Assassin: '''''Hygiene and the Assassin''''' (, lit. "The Assassin's Hygiene") is the first novel by the Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb. It was published in 1992 by Albin Michel. The novel is written almost entirely in dialogue.
Bunker 13: Debut novels: Drugs, sex and espionage are the central themes and is the first novel by Aniruddha Bahal
that are non-biographical but are about writers: a 2003 novel about an Indian journalist working on a weekly news magazine, who is investigating reports of corruption in some rogue outfits in the Indian army in the Kashmir sector.
A Certain Hunger: a debut novel by writer Chelsea G. Summers. It tells the story of serial killer Dorothy Daniels, a successful food writer who also eats men.
The World is Round (novel): (1896) is the first novel by Australian writer Louise Mack.


The novel follows the story of Jean Burnes, a young Sydney woman with dreams of becoming a novelist. Her manuscript is altered by her lover Musgrave and it goes on to great success.
A Smuggler's Bible: Debut novels that are non-biographical but are about writers: Joseph McElroy's first novel.
non-biographical but are about writers: :The frame story is told from what seems to be a split-personality part of a consciousness, although it may simply be an extended metaphor for the mind of an author, keeping distinct his personal life and creative mental life:




:David is on a cruise ship heading to London. He has eight manuscripts, his memories, and they need to be made into one. An older Englishman approaches David, talks about smuggling, how it used to be a fine art, but now the current generation are mere amateurs.
Kissing Shakespeare: '''''Kissing Shakespeare''''' is a debut novel of a former American teacher and librarian-turned-writer Pamela Mingle.
Lady Lazarus (novel): '''''Lady Lazarus''''' is the first novel by O. Henry Award-winning writer Andrew Foster Altschul, published by Harcourt in 2008.
Edwin Mullhouse: ''''Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright''''' is the critically acclaimed debut novel by American author Steven Millhauser, published in 1972 and written in the form of a biography of a fictitious person by a fictitious author