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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

Noomin waited years after her losses before writing about them, and the conflict between wanting to fictionalize her story and to tell it honestly is dramatized through conversations with an alter ego.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

“We just decided, ‘We’re not going to fictionalize the Valley.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

There was certainly an exigent need to record, analyze and explain Sept. 11, but it was not at all clear if there was a parallel need to fictionalize Sept. 11.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021

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 Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

Ellis fictionalized his Buckley School years for the novel, originally released as a serialized audiobook on his podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to be learned from true history or its fictionalized version dressed up in dragons and magic.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 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

And though Grove would eventually release a fictionalized version called The Years of Fear, the original historical account was never published.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

“Her First American,” Segal’s best book, also draws closely from life, but its fictionalizing feels freer and brings out poignant elements of romance and tragicomedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

I don’t want to ask you specifically about that, but rather the creative habit of approaching Lincoln’s life stories from an array of directions including fictionalizing him as a vampire slayer.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024

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

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

From Seattle 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