I will never again believe an author's claim that fiction isn't autobiographical. After Roth's shrink published a scholarly essay on the neuroses of a lightly disguised "southern playwright," Roth initially suspected him of stealing from the yet-unpublished "Portnoy."
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To turn it around: That he was so good at persuading me his mother wasn't Sophie Portnoy, in the face of overwhelming evidence that she was, attests to the power of his abilities as a writer of fiction (even when writing nonfiction).
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