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His 2000 debut, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” was a lightly fictionalized memoir that introduced readers to Eggers’ ironized yet deeply moving storytelling.

The movie is based on Mendoza’s own experiences during the Iraq war and is slightly fictionalized to protect some platoon members’ identities.

I had never read it but knew it was set in a fictionalized Civil Rights-era Birmingham.

Trump, of course, played a fictionalized version of himself on “The Apprentice,” beginning in 2004.

Author Colson Whitehead funneled that sorrow into “The Nickel Boys,” a 2019 novel about two Black friends at the lightly fictionalized Nickel Academy, and unearthed emotions so beautiful that he won a Pulitzer Prize.