: Re: Do authors often base their characters off of themselves? (I previously asked a related question about projecting myself onto my characters.) I've read just few books where authors use their own

@Kristi637

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While I couldn't give you statistics on how prevalent it is, certainly it is not especially rare. I can think of a few major, bestselling authors who have done this off the top of me head easily enough:

Kathy Reichs -> "Temperance Brennan" in the Bones books is an obvious one
Lawrence Durrell -> the narrator in Justine
Sylvia Plath -> "Esther Greenwood" in The Bell Jar
Hunter S. Thompson -> "Raoul Duke" in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
JK Rowling -> "Hermione Granger" in the Harry Potter books (in fact all three of the main characters are based of aspects of the author).

I could go on (but I'm sure you'd get bored!), basically it happens a lot!

As for whether it is out of place or not see my answer and of course the others! To the question explicitly about this here.

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