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Originally Posted by gmw
Sorry, that was unclear. The two different sorts of writing in that paragraph were referring to your fiction vs your non-fiction (rather than memoir vs other). It's always risky to over-generalise on this stuff, but it seems to me that (at least until you become a well known author) you are unlikely to see much cross-over between those looking at your fiction and those looking at your non-fiction. Indeed, as jandrew suggested, you may find some turned away by the mix.
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Authors of the past have written some fiction based on personal non-fiction though. Charles Dickens for example based at least part of his novels like Oliver Twist and David Copperfield on his own experiences of poverty as a child.