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Originally Posted by Yapyap
Real Person Fic, although not copyright infringement, can probably be potentially libellous I would think...
Quite honestly, RPF tends to squick me, personally, so I stay well away from it; on the other hand, it's not like it's a particularly new tradition - historical fiction writers in particular have been writing real person fic for a very long time, incorporating real historical people into their fictional tales, and most certainly not always sticking to just historically known facts about them.
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I'm mostly a gen and h/c reader, but I'm asking because I just remembered somebody mentioned that one of the characters in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books was apparently very closely based on a historical person. I have a couple of flisters who write historical RPF and it occurred to me to ask how it was fine for her to do it, but not them.