'Write what you know,' they say. So it makes sense that many authors take a good look around at friends and family when creating characters for their books. For example: Mark Twain once admitted that he wasn't terribly creative in creating Huckleberry Finn - he based the character almost precisely on his childhood friend Tom Blankenship.
10 Famous Literary Characters Based On Real People.
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SO Miss Haversham was based on somebody real, but they don't know who. So how do they know she was based on somebody real then?
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