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While I couldn't give you statistics on how prevalent it is, certainly it is not especially rare. I can think of a few major, bestselling authors who have done this off the top of me head easily en...
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While I couldn't give you statistics on how prevalent it is, certainly it is not especially rare. I can think of a few major, bestselling authors who have done this off the top of me head easily enough: - Kathy Reichs -\> "Temperance Brennan" in the _Bones_ books is an obvious one - Lawrence Durrell -\> the narrator in _Justine_ - Sylvia Plath -\> "Esther Greenwood" in _The Bell Jar_ - Hunter S. Thompson -\> "Raoul Duke" in _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_ - JK Rowling -\> "Hermione Granger" in the _Harry Potter_ books (in fact all three of the main characters are based of aspects of the author). I could go on (but I'm sure you'd get bored!), basically it happens a lot! As for whether it is out of place or not see [my answer](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/41135/is-it-bad-to-project-myself-into-my-story/41137#41137) and of course the others! To the question explicitly about this [here](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/41135/is-it-bad-to-project-myself-into-my-story).
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