I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.