Query: Autobiographical novels based on actual events in New York (state)
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Manchild in the Promised Land
Richard Yates (novel)
Tropic of Capricorn (novel)
The Town and the City
Snowblind (book)
The Bell Jar
Taipei (novel)
Go (Holmes novel)
Jews without Money
Gimme the Money
Anthropology of an American Girl
Family Life (novel)
Heavenly Breakfast
The Rosy Crucifixion
Evidence from documents: Manchild in the Promised Land: a 1965 autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown. It chronicles the author's coming-of-age story amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s.
Richard Yates (novel): Autobiographical novels: an autobiographical novel by Tao Lin, published in 2010.
based on actual events in New York (state): friends who initially met over the internet and converse with each other regularly through Gmail chat. Haley is a 22-year-old author in Manhattan, and Dakota is a 16-year-old high school student in a nearby suburb in New Jersey.
The novel's plot is based on Lin's relationship with the poet E. R. Kennedy, whom he dated when he was 22 and Kennedy was 16. In October 2014, Kennedy accused Lin of committing statutory rape over the course of their relationship. Kennedy also accused Lin of instances of emotional abuse, and claimed that Lin based passages in ''Richard Yates'' on personal email correspondence between the two''
Tropic of Capricorn (novel): based on actual events in New York (state): In the spring of 1927, Miller was living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights with his second wife June Miller and her lover, Jean Kronski. He had recently obtained a new job working for the Parks Department. One day, he returned home to find a note saying they had taken a boat to Paris. Soon after, Miller moved back in with his parents in Brooklyn.
Autobiographical novels: a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Mille
The Town and the City: based on actual events in New York (state): The novel is focused on two locations (as suggested by the title): one, the early Beat Generation circle of New York in the late 1940s, the other, the nearly rural small town of Galloway, Massachusetts that the main character comes from, before going off to college on a football scholarship. Galloway represents the town of Lowell, Massachusetts, which the Merrimack river runs through, and where Kerouac was raised. The experiences of the young "Peter Martin" struggling for success on the high school football team are largely those of Jack Kerouac
Autobiographical novels: ''The Town and the City'' is essentially an autobiographical novel,
Snowblind (book): by American author Robert Sabbag in 1976 is a non-fiction account about a character named Zachary Swan who turned his hand to smuggling cocaine from Colombia into the US. Set in the 1970s before organised crime took over the cocaine trade, it is based primarily in New York City and Bogotá
The Bell Jar: based on actual events in New York (state): In 1953, Esther Greenwood, a nineteen-year-old undergraduate student from the suburbs of Boston, is awarded a summer internship at the fictional ''Ladies' Day'' magazine in New York City. During the internship, Esther feels neither stimulated nor excited by the work, fashion, and big-city lifestyle that her peers in the program seem to adore.
Autobiographical novels: the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a ''roman à clef'' because the protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression or bipolar II disorder
Taipei (novel): Writing autobiographically is more difficult because I'm editing a massive first draft of maybe 25,000 pages—my memory—into a 250-page novel.
Go (Holmes novel): '''''Go''''' is a semi-autobiographical novel by John Clellon Holmes. (Holmes referred to the book as a ''roman à clef''.) It is considered to be the first published novel depicting the beat generation. Set in New York
Jews without Money: Autobiographical novels: a 1930 semi-autobiographical novel by American critic Mike Gold.
based on actual events in New York (state): In his authorial note to the novel, Gold wrote, "I have told in my book a tale of Jewish poverty in one ghetto, that of New York.
Gimme the Money: is partial autobiographical novel by Iva Pekárková about her time taxi-driving in New York City.
Anthropology of an American Girl: The semi-autobiographical literary novel contains an examination of the social and cultural pressures that prevent individuals from living meaningfully.
Family Life (novel): Autobiographical novels based on actual events in New York (state): '''''Family Life''''' is a 2014 autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma. Set in 1978, it tells the coming-of-age story of an eight-year old Indian boy named Ajay Mishra living with his recently immigrated family in New York City.
Autobiographical novels: '''''Family Life''''' is a 2014 autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma.
based on actual events in New York (state): Set in 1978, it tells the coming-of-age story of an eight-year old Indian boy named Ajay Mishra living with his recently immigrated family in New York City.
Heavenly Breakfast: Autobiographical novels: '''''Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love''''' is a 1979 memoir by author, professor, and critic Samuel R. Delany.
based on actual events in New York (state): It details the time he spent living in a commune in New York City during the winter of 1967-1968, although altering some details.
The Rosy Crucifixion: Autobiographical novels: '''The Rosy Crucifixion''''', a trilogy consisting of ''Sexus'', ''Plexus'', and ''Nexus'', is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928.
based on actual events in New York (state): He began writing ''Sexus'' in New York in 1942, then set it aside until picking it back up in 1947 while living in Big Sur.