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Originally Posted by frahse
That is the "fiction" element.
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Some day an English prof will get tenure calling it a framing device.
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another case:
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[Stephen] King steadfastly denied any connection to [his pen name of Richard] Bachman and, to throw fans off the trail, dedicated Bachman's 1984 novel Thinner to "Claudia Inez Bachman," who was, supposedly, Bachman's wife.
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As far as I can see, it would be impossible in today's publishing world to have a pseudonym and not provide a necessarily fictional bio squib.