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Shadows of Spielberg’s filmography loom large over “Disclosure Day”: the inclination to revisit and fictionalize childhood from “The Fabelmans,” the tests of empathy in “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and, of course, all the aliens.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Moriarty and Jaci supply each other writing prompts, while claiming first dibs on real-life anecdotes they wish to fictionalize.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021

Vanessa’s capacity to romanticize, to fictionalize, runs rampant.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

I have disagreed with many of the attempts to question her right to fictionalize Mexico’s predicament simply because she long identified as white.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2020

It was a means by which, if not to erase or delete memory, to splice it, to fictionalize it, and to some degree begin again; and yet he judged consciousness to be even less real.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

Prosecutors allege that Matar was motivated by a fatwa that Ayatollah Khomeini, then leader of Iran, issued in 1989 following Rushdie's depiction of a fictionalized Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Before this, Irving had begun his project of myth-building with a mischievously fictionalized history of New York published under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker—a pseudonym that lives on with the city’s basketball team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

It includes having your most intimate moments fictionalized for the purposes of a miniseries and, in Kennedy’s case, your father’s assassination and your family’s reaction to trauma raked over one more time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Mother tells me you have given up on the tribal art book and are pleased with this one, a sort of fictionalized travelogue?

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The narrator decides to write a novel fictionalizing the surveyor’s account, shame be damned—“And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the New York Republican congressman who was caught fictionalizing his past.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

And it’s uncommon for producers to involve the people whose lives they are fictionalizing.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

And also my conflicted feelings about what I was doing with Hana's story in fictionalizing it, and about mythologizing my father on the page.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2022

“By fictionalizing away my innocence, my total lack of involvement, by erasing the role of the authorities in my wrongful conviction, McCarthy reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person,” Knox wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021