A Bump in the Road Author Turns her Life into Her Novel

aureen Lipinski, author of A Bump in the Road, recently sat down for an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.  One of the most interesting things we found in the interview is the fact that she decided to write a novel about a woman going through an unexpected pregnancy while she herself had never had any children, and subsequently during the book’s production found herself unexpectedly pregnant.  Even more interesting, though, is the fact that her main character’s life seems to match her own to an almost uncannily autobiographical degree (for fiction).  Both the author and the the main character, Clare Finnegan, are, as the Sun-Times article puts it, “famous bloggers, professional event planners and newlywed party-hearty girls.”  Still, the book looks interesting for fans of chick lit.  I am wondering what the implications are of authors basically re-describing their own life stories as fictional accounts.  I wonder, have these authors ever heard of writers like David Sedaris?  He makes a killing from doing nothing other than writing stories about himself and his family.

A Bump in the Road was published June 9, 2009, by St. Martin’s Griffin.