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For his 1970 novel, “Bomber,” a fictionalization of a Royal Air Force raid over Germany in 1943, he spoke to survivors and listened to wartime tape recordings to get the dialogue right.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The scouting team for a Shinkai film will photograph real places, and those become the basis for these representations that are the most gorgeous fictionalization of that place possible.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023

That’s when “The Staircase” suggests a dramatic gearshift to something else entirely: the rare fictionalization that underscores the many narrative decisions that went into piecing together its ostensibly more straightforward, fly-on-the-wall precursor.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2022

Her response, she said, was to remind them that it was a fictionalization of Kali: “It’s just a work of art!”

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

At the time, Plummer was costarring with Brian Dennehy in the Broadway revival of “Inherit the Wind,” the classic fictionalization of the Scopes monkey trial of the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2021