Art and life (again)

No personal autobiographical material has gotten more mileage in my work than my years living with the model for the woman I usually call "Sally." Not only is she the model in Deconstructing Sally but also in my play The Half-Life Conspiracy (written over 20 years ago) and in my novel Kerouac's Scroll. It's fascinating to compare what different uses the same personal history are put to in these three different works. It's also another strong argument for what in critical circles used to be called, and maybe still is, "the biographical fallacy."