The article also included an interview with Lin, who said, on the autobiographical nature of the book:

The autobiographical nature of this outline is probably misleading.

What it does do is reinforce the deeply autobiographical nature of his work.

The film underscores the intensely autobiographical nature of his art.

This is due to the highly autobiographical nature of much of Fante's writing.

His thoughts on the inevitably autobiographical nature of fiction seem to manifest, playfully, here.

This historical tension is linked to the autobiographical nature of the novel.

Today, however, most experts agree that the work is de Bury's, chiefly due to the revealing and autobiographical nature of the book.

Also a number of times Lyons hints at the autobiographical nature of the piece though without providing any real evidence.

Exploring what life was like for 1920s migrant workers and the autobiographical nature of Steinbeck's novel.