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Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, was published in 1985 when she was 25.

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The story of Franny Banks, an aspiring actress pounding the pavement in New York City in the 1990s, is semi-autobiographical.

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Despite all the spin, this semi-autobiographical novel falls somewhat flat in English.

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This semi-autobiographical movie about paraplegics carries its weight of authority lightly.

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In semi-autobiographical style, he travels into his childhood and into history from Joan of Arc to De Gaulle in search of the people who gave France its sense of self, its soul.

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"Everything that's ever written is semi-autobiographical, " she acknowledges.

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