She is working on a collection of short stories, a novel about a woman who arranges her own murder, a fictionalized portrait of Janis Joplin and a pulp thriller about a serial killer obsessed with justice.

One is a fictionalized portrait of Ava Gardner, the most obvious inspiration for Ila.

The fictionalized portraits of his mother and stepfather in "The 400 Blows" are said to have hit them hard.

IN 1970, the Peruvian novelist Alfredo Bryce Echenique published a fictionalized portrait of his Lima childhood.

This is not the case, however, with "Ravelstein," a chatty, intermittently engaging work that feels more like a fictionalized portrait than a fully fashioned novel.

A lightly fictionalized portrait of the Jewish Division's first chief, Abraham Solomon Freidus, is found in a chapter of Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917).

"THERE are no second acts in American lives," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his notes for "The Last Tycoon," a fictionalized portrait of a tragic movie mogul.

Teng Wenji, 1998) is a slightly fictionalized portrait of Shi (called Zhao Liming in the film).

He later presented a fictionalized portrait of his experience in his 1852 novel, The Blithedale Romance.