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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBearsBigChapterBooks'': The plot of ''The Berenstain Bears and No Guns Allowed'' is heavily inspired by the Columbine massacre and other school shootings.
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* ''All We Know of Heaven'' by Jacquelyn Mitchard is based on a real story about two girls who are in a car accident. One girl dies. Unfortunately, the hospital identified the wrong one as dead. In real life, the families were very nice about it and handled themselves well. The book adds more drama and a love story.
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* The ''Creator/DanielleSteel'' novel ''Vanished'' is based on the Lindbergh kidnapping. With a much happier ending, of course – the child is found safe and sound, the ''father'' is responsible for the whole thing, enabling him to be sent to prison and out of the heroine's life, paving the way for her to be reunited with her true love.
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe did it with the short story "Literature/TheMysteryOfMarieRoget", which is based on the real-life disappearance and apparent murder of an American woman named [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604211449/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/mary_rogers/index.html Mary Rogers.]]
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* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe did it with the short story "Literature/TheMysteryOfMarieRoget", which is based on the real-life disappearance and apparent murder of an American woman named [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604211449/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/mary_rogers/index.html Mary Rogers.]]
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe did it with the short story "Literature/TheMysteryOfMarieRoget", which is based on the real-life disappearance and apparent murder of an American woman named [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604211449/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/mary_rogers/index.html Mary Rogers.]]
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** The Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Literature/TheClocks'' features an in-universe inversion. The murder mystery, which caused a lot of media uproar, was based on an unpublished detective story. In his denouement, Poirot criticizes the murderer for being unoriginal.* OlderThanPrint: ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' features the adulterers Francesca and Paolo in {{Hell}} because their murder was talked about all over Italy.
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** The Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Literature/TheClocks'' features an in-universe inversion. The murder mystery, which caused a lot of media uproar, was based on an unpublished detective story. In his denouement, Poirot criticizes the murderer for being unoriginal.unoriginal.
* OlderThanPrint: ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' features the adulterers Francesca and Paolo in {{Hell}} because their murder was talked about all over Italy.
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** The Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Literature/TheClocks'' features an in-universe inversion. The murder mystery, which caused a lot of media uproar, was based on an unpublished detective story. In his denouement, Poirot criticizes the murderer for being unoriginal.* OlderThanPrint: ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' features the adulterers Francesca and Paolo in {{Hell}} because their murder was talked about all over Italy.
* The Kolnari in ''Literature/TheShipWho'' don't reflect any specific incident, but they ''are'' a very close representation of racist white fears of "superpredators" which started to really be hyped up in certain circles at the time when ''The City Who Fought'' was written - superpredators being urban black people who (supposedly) have no consciences or morals, are very physically adept and clever but not smart, are ''extremely'' fertile and become 'adults' at a very young age, want nothing but to steal, murder, and rape, and generally have very little humanity. All this plus keloid scars, with a side of RecycledINSPACE, applies to the [[DarkIsEvil black-skinned Kolnari]], including people calling them soulless and [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar comparing them to vermin]].
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* "Delial", the girl Navidson frequently mentions in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', turns out to be [[spoiler:the name he mentally gave to the subject of his award-winning photograph [[http://www.fanpop.com/spots/house-of-leaves/images/1180150/title/real-delial-photo of a starving orphan girl in Africa in the view of a vulture.]] The book actually mentions the RealLife version and the photographer by name]].
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* "Delial", the girl Navidson frequently mentions in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', turns out to be [[spoiler:the name he mentally gave to the subject of his award-winning photograph [[http://www.fanpop.com/spots/house-of-leaves/images/1180150/title/real-delial-photo of a starving orphan girl in Africa in the view of a vulture.]] The book Befitting the MindScrew nature of the book, this ends up being lampshaded and deconstructed; [[NestedStory in the upper layers of the story]], Johnny Truant actually mentions the RealLife version and the photographer by name]].name and cites this trope as evidence against the Navidson Record's existence despite Zampano's claims to the contrary, as Navidson's backstory is blatantly just a heavily fictionalized version of a real event that was in the news at the time Zampano wrote his essay and Navidson himself is therefore just a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed stand-in]] for the photographer in question. Truant further [[DiscussedTrope points out how disrespectful and sleazy this is]], since it's taking the actual suffering of two innocent people and using it for cheap drama]].
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* In the afterword of the first volume of ''Literature/{{Sexiled}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'', Ameko Kaeruda reveals that she started writing the {{Light Novel|s}} in reaction to the news of a "certain medical university" rigging the scores of female students. While she technically doesn't name the university, this is pretty obviously in reference to the [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/08/02/a-medical-school-in-japan-didnt-want-too-many-women-so-it-lowered-their-grades/ Tokyo Medical University scandal,]] in which it was revealed that the entrance exam results of female applicants has been automatically lowered for several years in an attempt to keep the ratio of women in each class of students below 30 percent. In particular, Alisa's subplot involving the Magic Academy is pretty nakedly a reference to this.
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* In the afterword of the first volume of ''Literature/{{Sexiled}}: ''Literature/{{Sexiled|2018}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'', Ameko Kaeruda reveals that she started writing the {{Light Novel|s}} in reaction to the news of a "certain medical university" rigging the scores of female students. While she technically doesn't name the university, this is pretty obviously in reference to the [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/08/02/a-medical-school-in-japan-didnt-want-too-many-women-so-it-lowered-their-grades/ Tokyo Medical University scandal,]] in which it was revealed that the entrance exam results of female applicants has been automatically lowered for several years in an attempt to keep the ratio of women in each class of students below 30 percent. In particular, Alisa's subplot involving the Magic Academy is pretty nakedly a reference to this.
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* ''Holding Up The Universe'' by Jennifer Niven involves an obese young woman who is subject to unwanted media attention after her house has to be partially demolished in order to get her to the hospital, loosely based on the case of Georgia Davis, but taking place in the US rather than the UK.
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* ''Holding Up The Universe'' by Jennifer Niven involves an obese young woman who is subject to unwanted media attention after her house has to be partially demolished in order to get her to the hospital, loosely based on the case of Georgia Davis, but taking place in the US rather than the UK.UK.
* ''Literature/UnderSuspicionSeries'':
** In a {{downplayed|trope}} example in ''Literature/TheCinderellaMurder'', Brett Young initially tries to talk Laurie into covering a twenty-year-old cold case (the novel takes place in 2014, so the cold case is from 1994) where a child beauty pageant queen was found murdered in her own home in the Midwest; Laurie is extremely reluctant, arguing that the case has been covered extensively already and there's nothing new to say about it, there aren't any viable suspects available for interview seeing as the girl's family were cleared via DNA evidence and the police never found any other likely suspects, nor does she want to exploit a murdered child for the sake of ratings. It's strongly implied the case is inspired by - but not directly based upon - the murder of [=JonBenet=] Ramsey due to the similarities.
** ''Literature/AllDressedInWhite'' appears to be [[DownplayedTrope loosely inspired]] by the real case of Jennifer Wilbanks, which like the fictional mystery was also referred to as the {{Runaway Bride}} case; six days before her lavish wedding, Wilbanks went out for an evening jog and disappeared, with her concerned fiance and family reporting her missing. Something very similar occurred in the backstory of ''All Dressed in White''. However, in the real case Wilbanks was found about a week later when she called her fiance on her would-be wedding date, claiming to have been kidnapped; she later admitted to investigators she'd lied and ran away to escape the stress of the wedding. The fictional Amanda Pierce case saw the bride disappear for over five years [[spoiler:and it turns out she was the victim of foul play]]. The Wilbanks case is even seemingly [[ShoutOut referenced]] in the novel; when Laurie is pitching the Runaway Bride case to Brett Young, he says he thought the bride eventually turned up in Vegas (where Wilbanks briefly stayed after running away), only for Laurie to state that this is a ''different'' missing bride case.
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* ''Literature/UnderSuspicionSeries'':
** In a {{downplayed|trope}} example in ''Literature/TheCinderellaMurder'', Brett Young initially tries to talk Laurie into covering a twenty-year-old cold case (the novel takes place in 2014, so the cold case is from 1994) where a child beauty pageant queen was found murdered in her own home in the Midwest; Laurie is extremely reluctant, arguing that the case has been covered extensively already and there's nothing new to say about it, there aren't any viable suspects available for interview seeing as the girl's family were cleared via DNA evidence and the police never found any other likely suspects, nor does she want to exploit a murdered child for the sake of ratings. It's strongly implied the case is inspired by - but not directly based upon - the murder of [=JonBenet=] Ramsey due to the similarities.
** ''Literature/AllDressedInWhite'' appears to be [[DownplayedTrope loosely inspired]] by the real case of Jennifer Wilbanks, which like the fictional mystery was also referred to as the {{Runaway Bride}} case; six days before her lavish wedding, Wilbanks went out for an evening jog and disappeared, with her concerned fiance and family reporting her missing. Something very similar occurred in the backstory of ''All Dressed in White''. However, in the real case Wilbanks was found about a week later when she called her fiance on her would-be wedding date, claiming to have been kidnapped; she later admitted to investigators she'd lied and ran away to escape the stress of the wedding. The fictional Amanda Pierce case saw the bride disappear for over five years [[spoiler:and it turns out she was the victim of foul play]]. The Wilbanks case is even seemingly [[ShoutOut referenced]] in the novel; when Laurie is pitching the Runaway Bride case to Brett Young, he says he thought the bride eventually turned up in Vegas (where Wilbanks briefly stayed after running away), only for Laurie to state that this is a ''different'' missing bride case.
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* In the afterword of the first volume of ''LightNovel/{{Sexiled}}: ''Literature/{{Sexiled}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'', Ameko Kaeruda reveals that she started writing the {{Light Novel|s}} in reaction to the news of a "certain medical university" rigging the scores of female students. While she technically doesn't name the university, this is pretty obviously in reference to the [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/08/02/a-medical-school-in-japan-didnt-want-too-many-women-so-it-lowered-their-grades/ Tokyo Medical University scandal,]] in which it was revealed that the entrance exam results of female applicants has been automatically lowered for several years in an attempt to keep the ratio of women in each class of students below 30 percent. In particular, Alisa's subplot involving the Magic Academy is pretty nakedly a reference to this.
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Examples of RippedFromTheHeadlines in {{Literature}}
* OlderThanPrint: ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' features the adulterers Francesca and Paolo in {{Hell}} because their murder was talked about all over Italy.
* Creator/AgathaChristie:
** Part of ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'', [[spoiler:the Daisy Armstrong kidnapping,]] is clearly based on the Charles Lindbergh case.
** ''Literature/TheMirrorCrackdFromSideToSide'' borrows its pivotal backstory from the real life of [[spoiler:actress Creator/GeneTierney]], to the extent that if you happen to be familiar with it, the crime is not terribly difficult to solve before Literature/MissMarple solves it. However, Christie denied doing so, saying that she'd never heard of [[spoiler:Gene Tierney's tragedy]] until after the book was written; given the PR stranglehold Hollywood studios had on their stars at the time, and that people really didn't talk about that sort of thing, [[spoiler:disabled and mentally deficient children]] it's quite possible she was telling the truth.
** The Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Literature/TheClocks'' features an in-universe inversion. The murder mystery, which caused a lot of media uproar, was based on an unpublished detective story. In his denouement, Poirot criticizes the murderer for being unoriginal.
* Creator/JodiPicoult's books often take two issues that are in the news [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]]. ''Literature/MySistersKeeper'' (in-vitro fertilization, ethics), ''Literature/HandleWithCare'' (aborting a disabled child), ''Change of Heart'' (religion, death penalty, organ donation), and ''Literature/SingYouHome'' (lesbians having families, in-vitro fertilization). ''Literature/ThePact'' is about a SuicidePact and TeenPregnancy, ''Salem Falls'' is about being falsely accused of rape, and ''Mercy'' is about [[MercyKill assisted suicide]].
* The ''Creator/DanielleSteel'' novel ''Vanished'' is based on the Lindbergh kidnapping. With a much happier ending, of course – the child is found safe and sound, the ''father'' is responsible for the whole thing, enabling him to be sent to prison and out of the heroine's life, paving the way for her to be reunited with her true love.
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe did it with the short story "Literature/TheMysteryOfMarieRoget", which is based on the real-life disappearance and apparent murder of an American woman named [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604211449/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/mary_rogers/index.html Mary Rogers.]]
* Walter Gibson noted in an article in The Great Detectives (edited by Otto Penzler) that he based the Shadow's foe Double Z on the then contemporary terrorist Three X.
* Joyce Carol Oates is very fond of fictionalizing real cases of murder and violent death, sometimes sticking very close to actual events but going inside the minds of the people involved, sometimes [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory departing much farther]]. Some examples are ''My Sister My Love'' ([=JonBenet=] Ramsey), ''Zombie'' (Jeffrey Dahmer), ''Literature/WhereAreYouGoingWhereHaveYouBeen'' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schmid Charles Schmid]]), "Dear Husband" (Andrea Yates), "Landfill" ([[http://www.phillymag.com/scripts/print/article.php?asset_idx=228955 John Fiocco]]), and ''Black Water'' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne Mary Jo Kopechne]]).
* ''All We Know of Heaven'' by Jacquelyn Mitchard is based on a real story about two girls who are in a car accident. One girl dies. Unfortunately, the hospital identified the wrong one as dead. In real life, the families were very nice about it and handled themselves well. The book adds more drama and a love story.
* Two of the most memorable Literature/SherlockHolmes villains, Charles Augustus Milverton and Professor James Moriarty, were based on real-life criminals Charles Augustus Howell and Adam Worth, respectively.
* Fr. Creator/GerardManleyHopkins wrote 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' shortly after receiving news about five Franciscans nuns, who fled from Prussia due to harsh anti-Catholic laws and all died in a shipwreck while sailing to America.
* Many of the newspaper clippings mentioned in H.P. Lovecraft's masterpiece "Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu" were literally ripped from the headlines of the days in question; for example, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_Charlevoix–Kamouraska_earthquake earthquake]], the architect's suicide, and the theosophist society's apocalyptic expectations were really reported in the New York Times on the stated dates.
* Laura Lippman's ''What the Dead Know'' is partially based on the disappearance of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_sisters the Lyon Sisters]] in 1975.
* In ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'', the backstory of antagonist Mason Verger is based not-so-loosely on the purported self-mutilation of a man under the influence of PCP who sliced off bits of his face and fed them to his dogs. The sole evidence for this event seems to come from an annotated photograph in the book ''Practical Homicide Investigation'' by Vernon J. Geberth. '''Warning: the photograph in question is exceptionally graphic and disturbing.''' If you still want to view it (don't say we didn't warn you), you can access the image [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020817073301/http://marmo.com/images/FacePeel.jpg here.]]
* ''Literature/ThePassage'' by Justin Cronin has this as the Gulf Oil Spill is mentioned to be still causing problems 100 years later.
* ''Literature/SavingZoe'' is about a girl named Zoë who was killed by a "photographer" she met on Website/MySpace. Ripped from stories such as the "Facebook killer" or the "Craigslist Killer" and many others.
* "Delial", the girl Navidson frequently mentions in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', turns out to be [[spoiler:the name he mentally gave to the subject of his award-winning photograph [[http://www.fanpop.com/spots/house-of-leaves/images/1180150/title/real-delial-photo of a starving orphan girl in Africa in the view of a vulture.]] The book actually mentions the RealLife version and the photographer by name]].
* [[Literature/FullDarkNoStars "A Good Marriage"]] is centered around the idea of a normal suburban housewife finding out that her husband is a sexually sadistic serial killer. Creator/StephenKing defends his being inspired by [[https://wikipedia.com/wiki/dennis_rader the then-recent arrest of the BTK Killer]] and the public outcry surrounding his wife, Paula, who many couldn't believe the idea of not knowing your husband of thirty years was a felon. She wasn't terribly pleased by the resurgence of attention caused by the story.
* ''Literature/ThePearl'' by Creator/JohnSteinbeck exaggerates this trope.
* ''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Dead]]'' by Creator/TerryPratchett is about Blackbury Council selling the cemetery to United Holdings (Holdings) Ltd. for 2p. This was based on Westminster Council selling three cemeteries to corporate buyers for 5p each.
* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: The final book ''Home Free'' focuses on a character who is explicitly stated to be a clone of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff Bernie Madoff]].
* ''After'' by Amy Efaw is about a teenage girl named Devon who gets pregnant in high school. She then dumps the baby in a dumpster, but the baby is found and she is charged with attempted murder. The author states on her website that it is inspired by various news stories about babies left in dumpsters or trash cans, such as the story of Melissa Drexler or Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson.
* The climax of ''Literature/TheFearIndex'' features an extreme flux in the DOW Jones, which actually happened and is called a Flash Crash. One gets the impression that Harris found this interesting and worked backwards from that.
* ''Literature/{{Scarface}}'' was loosely based on UsefulNotes/AlCapone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
* Creator/JosephConrad's ''The Secret Agent'' is based on an actual news story about an unsolved terrorist plot.
* Every Creator/DaleBrown story is prefaced by extracts from news articles that came out shortly before publication, establishing the relevance of the events and equipment featured.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, several UK-specific books are about current events in the monarchy.
* ''The Last Guru'' by Creator/DanielPinkwater is loosely based on the story of Maharaj Ji of the Divine Light Mission, who became famous as an avatar of God in his early teens.
* The stories featured in Literature/TheRailwaySeries are all based on stories of real incidents on railways. This can get frustrating in railfan circles while discussing real historic events, only for a Railway Series fan to interject and point out "hey, I know this story from Thomas!"
* The plot of ''No Way to Treat a First Lady'' by Creator/ChristopherBuckley is a mishmash of the Monica Lewinsky/President Clinton sex scandal and the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
* ''Literature/{{Hobgoblin}}'' was published to cash in on the then-recent death of James Dallas Egbert III by having an RPG-obsessed teen fall under the spell of his game and try to play out his fantasies. Contrary to the Egbert case, [[spoiler:Scott employs his fantasy to save others by becoming the hero his character had been]].
* In 1989, Swedish writer Jan Guillou wrote ''Enemy's Enemy'', where the main character's mission involves killing the spy Stig Sandström who had escaped from prison and fled to Moscow, which is what the real-life spy Stig Bergling had done two years earlier. The big difference is that the character also had killed his wife, while Bergling's wife had fled the country with him. After Bergling turned himself in to the authorities in 1994, he called Guillou from prison and said that he probably deserved a signed copy of the book, which Guillou agreed to, and sent him a book where he wrote that "this is the strangest dedication I've ever written."
* ''Literature/JoePickett'': The harassment of the Robersons by the EPA in ''Breaking Point'' was based on the events that led to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackett_v._Environmental_Protection_Agency Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency US Supreme Court case]].
* The central character of Creator/FyodorDostoevsky's ''Literature/{{Demons}}'' is a fictionalization of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Nechayev Sergey Nechayev]].
* At the climax of ''Literature/TheNebulyCoat'', [[spoiler:the church tower's collapse and later rebuilding exactly mirror the real-life collapse of Chichester Cathedral's central tower in 1861]].
* Rumer Godden's 1969 novel ''In This House of Brede'', follows a newcomer to an order of Benedictine nuns, who [[TakingTheVeil takes the veil]] in her middle years. One reason is the death of her 5-year-old son in a highly publicized accident years before. With only a few details changed, this part of the story seems to have come from a combination of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins Floyd Collins]] tragedy and that of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus Kathy Fiscus]].
* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Moonrise'' involves a mountain lion-like cat based on rumors of big cats roaming the British countryside which come up in the news every few years (the "sightings" usually involve panther-like cats said to have escaped from zoos or circuses, and their accuracy is debatable). There was a particular influx of these articles around the mid-2000s when ''Moonrise'' was written.
* ''Literature/TheLostHonourOfKatharinaBlum'' was inspired by several real-life scandals involving German tabloid ''Bild-Zeitung''[='=]s sensationalistic coverage of the [[WesternTerrorists Red Army Faction]] and their crimes. The novel's author Heinrich Böll had previously written an article for the magazine ''Der Spiegel'' wherein he sharply criticized ''Bild''[='=]s journalistic practices and stated that the paper "isn’t crypto-fascist anymore, not fascistoid, but naked fascism. Agitation, lies, dirt."
* ''Literature/BigTrouble'' has a subplot seemingly inspired by news about a sting operation in Miami resulting in the arrest of a couple of Lithuanian nationals for offering to sell undercover agents nuclear weapons. Creator/DaveBarry mentioned this in a column as [[OnlyInFlorida something that could only happen there]].
* In the afterword of the first volume of ''LightNovel/{{Sexiled}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'', Ameko Kaeruda reveals that she started writing the {{Light Novel|s}} in reaction to the news of a "certain medical university" rigging the scores of female students. While she technically doesn't name the university, this is pretty obviously in reference to the [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/08/02/a-medical-school-in-japan-didnt-want-too-many-women-so-it-lowered-their-grades/ Tokyo Medical University scandal,]] in which it was revealed that the entrance exam results of female applicants has been automatically lowered for several years in an attempt to keep the ratio of women in each class of students below 30 percent. In particular, Alisa's subplot involving the Magic Academy is pretty nakedly a reference to this.
* ''Holding Up The Universe'' by Jennifer Niven involves an obese young woman who is subject to unwanted media attention after her house has to be partially demolished in order to get her to the hospital, loosely based on the case of Georgia Davis, but taking place in the US rather than the UK.
* OlderThanPrint: ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' features the adulterers Francesca and Paolo in {{Hell}} because their murder was talked about all over Italy.
* Creator/AgathaChristie:
** Part of ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'', [[spoiler:the Daisy Armstrong kidnapping,]] is clearly based on the Charles Lindbergh case.
** ''Literature/TheMirrorCrackdFromSideToSide'' borrows its pivotal backstory from the real life of [[spoiler:actress Creator/GeneTierney]], to the extent that if you happen to be familiar with it, the crime is not terribly difficult to solve before Literature/MissMarple solves it. However, Christie denied doing so, saying that she'd never heard of [[spoiler:Gene Tierney's tragedy]] until after the book was written; given the PR stranglehold Hollywood studios had on their stars at the time, and that people really didn't talk about that sort of thing, [[spoiler:disabled and mentally deficient children]] it's quite possible she was telling the truth.
** The Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Literature/TheClocks'' features an in-universe inversion. The murder mystery, which caused a lot of media uproar, was based on an unpublished detective story. In his denouement, Poirot criticizes the murderer for being unoriginal.
* Creator/JodiPicoult's books often take two issues that are in the news [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]]. ''Literature/MySistersKeeper'' (in-vitro fertilization, ethics), ''Literature/HandleWithCare'' (aborting a disabled child), ''Change of Heart'' (religion, death penalty, organ donation), and ''Literature/SingYouHome'' (lesbians having families, in-vitro fertilization). ''Literature/ThePact'' is about a SuicidePact and TeenPregnancy, ''Salem Falls'' is about being falsely accused of rape, and ''Mercy'' is about [[MercyKill assisted suicide]].
* The ''Creator/DanielleSteel'' novel ''Vanished'' is based on the Lindbergh kidnapping. With a much happier ending, of course – the child is found safe and sound, the ''father'' is responsible for the whole thing, enabling him to be sent to prison and out of the heroine's life, paving the way for her to be reunited with her true love.
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe did it with the short story "Literature/TheMysteryOfMarieRoget", which is based on the real-life disappearance and apparent murder of an American woman named [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604211449/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/mary_rogers/index.html Mary Rogers.]]
* Walter Gibson noted in an article in The Great Detectives (edited by Otto Penzler) that he based the Shadow's foe Double Z on the then contemporary terrorist Three X.
* Joyce Carol Oates is very fond of fictionalizing real cases of murder and violent death, sometimes sticking very close to actual events but going inside the minds of the people involved, sometimes [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory departing much farther]]. Some examples are ''My Sister My Love'' ([=JonBenet=] Ramsey), ''Zombie'' (Jeffrey Dahmer), ''Literature/WhereAreYouGoingWhereHaveYouBeen'' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schmid Charles Schmid]]), "Dear Husband" (Andrea Yates), "Landfill" ([[http://www.phillymag.com/scripts/print/article.php?asset_idx=228955 John Fiocco]]), and ''Black Water'' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne Mary Jo Kopechne]]).
* ''All We Know of Heaven'' by Jacquelyn Mitchard is based on a real story about two girls who are in a car accident. One girl dies. Unfortunately, the hospital identified the wrong one as dead. In real life, the families were very nice about it and handled themselves well. The book adds more drama and a love story.
* Two of the most memorable Literature/SherlockHolmes villains, Charles Augustus Milverton and Professor James Moriarty, were based on real-life criminals Charles Augustus Howell and Adam Worth, respectively.
* Fr. Creator/GerardManleyHopkins wrote 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' shortly after receiving news about five Franciscans nuns, who fled from Prussia due to harsh anti-Catholic laws and all died in a shipwreck while sailing to America.
* Many of the newspaper clippings mentioned in H.P. Lovecraft's masterpiece "Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu" were literally ripped from the headlines of the days in question; for example, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_Charlevoix–Kamouraska_earthquake earthquake]], the architect's suicide, and the theosophist society's apocalyptic expectations were really reported in the New York Times on the stated dates.
* Laura Lippman's ''What the Dead Know'' is partially based on the disappearance of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_sisters the Lyon Sisters]] in 1975.
* In ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'', the backstory of antagonist Mason Verger is based not-so-loosely on the purported self-mutilation of a man under the influence of PCP who sliced off bits of his face and fed them to his dogs. The sole evidence for this event seems to come from an annotated photograph in the book ''Practical Homicide Investigation'' by Vernon J. Geberth. '''Warning: the photograph in question is exceptionally graphic and disturbing.''' If you still want to view it (don't say we didn't warn you), you can access the image [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020817073301/http://marmo.com/images/FacePeel.jpg here.]]
* ''Literature/ThePassage'' by Justin Cronin has this as the Gulf Oil Spill is mentioned to be still causing problems 100 years later.
* ''Literature/SavingZoe'' is about a girl named Zoë who was killed by a "photographer" she met on Website/MySpace. Ripped from stories such as the "Facebook killer" or the "Craigslist Killer" and many others.
* "Delial", the girl Navidson frequently mentions in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', turns out to be [[spoiler:the name he mentally gave to the subject of his award-winning photograph [[http://www.fanpop.com/spots/house-of-leaves/images/1180150/title/real-delial-photo of a starving orphan girl in Africa in the view of a vulture.]] The book actually mentions the RealLife version and the photographer by name]].
* [[Literature/FullDarkNoStars "A Good Marriage"]] is centered around the idea of a normal suburban housewife finding out that her husband is a sexually sadistic serial killer. Creator/StephenKing defends his being inspired by [[https://wikipedia.com/wiki/dennis_rader the then-recent arrest of the BTK Killer]] and the public outcry surrounding his wife, Paula, who many couldn't believe the idea of not knowing your husband of thirty years was a felon. She wasn't terribly pleased by the resurgence of attention caused by the story.
* ''Literature/ThePearl'' by Creator/JohnSteinbeck exaggerates this trope.
* ''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Dead]]'' by Creator/TerryPratchett is about Blackbury Council selling the cemetery to United Holdings (Holdings) Ltd. for 2p. This was based on Westminster Council selling three cemeteries to corporate buyers for 5p each.
* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: The final book ''Home Free'' focuses on a character who is explicitly stated to be a clone of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff Bernie Madoff]].
* ''After'' by Amy Efaw is about a teenage girl named Devon who gets pregnant in high school. She then dumps the baby in a dumpster, but the baby is found and she is charged with attempted murder. The author states on her website that it is inspired by various news stories about babies left in dumpsters or trash cans, such as the story of Melissa Drexler or Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson.
* The climax of ''Literature/TheFearIndex'' features an extreme flux in the DOW Jones, which actually happened and is called a Flash Crash. One gets the impression that Harris found this interesting and worked backwards from that.
* ''Literature/{{Scarface}}'' was loosely based on UsefulNotes/AlCapone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
* Creator/JosephConrad's ''The Secret Agent'' is based on an actual news story about an unsolved terrorist plot.
* Every Creator/DaleBrown story is prefaced by extracts from news articles that came out shortly before publication, establishing the relevance of the events and equipment featured.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, several UK-specific books are about current events in the monarchy.
* ''The Last Guru'' by Creator/DanielPinkwater is loosely based on the story of Maharaj Ji of the Divine Light Mission, who became famous as an avatar of God in his early teens.
* The stories featured in Literature/TheRailwaySeries are all based on stories of real incidents on railways. This can get frustrating in railfan circles while discussing real historic events, only for a Railway Series fan to interject and point out "hey, I know this story from Thomas!"
* The plot of ''No Way to Treat a First Lady'' by Creator/ChristopherBuckley is a mishmash of the Monica Lewinsky/President Clinton sex scandal and the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
* ''Literature/{{Hobgoblin}}'' was published to cash in on the then-recent death of James Dallas Egbert III by having an RPG-obsessed teen fall under the spell of his game and try to play out his fantasies. Contrary to the Egbert case, [[spoiler:Scott employs his fantasy to save others by becoming the hero his character had been]].
* In 1989, Swedish writer Jan Guillou wrote ''Enemy's Enemy'', where the main character's mission involves killing the spy Stig Sandström who had escaped from prison and fled to Moscow, which is what the real-life spy Stig Bergling had done two years earlier. The big difference is that the character also had killed his wife, while Bergling's wife had fled the country with him. After Bergling turned himself in to the authorities in 1994, he called Guillou from prison and said that he probably deserved a signed copy of the book, which Guillou agreed to, and sent him a book where he wrote that "this is the strangest dedication I've ever written."
* ''Literature/JoePickett'': The harassment of the Robersons by the EPA in ''Breaking Point'' was based on the events that led to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackett_v._Environmental_Protection_Agency Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency US Supreme Court case]].
* The central character of Creator/FyodorDostoevsky's ''Literature/{{Demons}}'' is a fictionalization of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Nechayev Sergey Nechayev]].
* At the climax of ''Literature/TheNebulyCoat'', [[spoiler:the church tower's collapse and later rebuilding exactly mirror the real-life collapse of Chichester Cathedral's central tower in 1861]].
* Rumer Godden's 1969 novel ''In This House of Brede'', follows a newcomer to an order of Benedictine nuns, who [[TakingTheVeil takes the veil]] in her middle years. One reason is the death of her 5-year-old son in a highly publicized accident years before. With only a few details changed, this part of the story seems to have come from a combination of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins Floyd Collins]] tragedy and that of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus Kathy Fiscus]].
* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Moonrise'' involves a mountain lion-like cat based on rumors of big cats roaming the British countryside which come up in the news every few years (the "sightings" usually involve panther-like cats said to have escaped from zoos or circuses, and their accuracy is debatable). There was a particular influx of these articles around the mid-2000s when ''Moonrise'' was written.
* ''Literature/TheLostHonourOfKatharinaBlum'' was inspired by several real-life scandals involving German tabloid ''Bild-Zeitung''[='=]s sensationalistic coverage of the [[WesternTerrorists Red Army Faction]] and their crimes. The novel's author Heinrich Böll had previously written an article for the magazine ''Der Spiegel'' wherein he sharply criticized ''Bild''[='=]s journalistic practices and stated that the paper "isn’t crypto-fascist anymore, not fascistoid, but naked fascism. Agitation, lies, dirt."
* ''Literature/BigTrouble'' has a subplot seemingly inspired by news about a sting operation in Miami resulting in the arrest of a couple of Lithuanian nationals for offering to sell undercover agents nuclear weapons. Creator/DaveBarry mentioned this in a column as [[OnlyInFlorida something that could only happen there]].
* In the afterword of the first volume of ''LightNovel/{{Sexiled}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'', Ameko Kaeruda reveals that she started writing the {{Light Novel|s}} in reaction to the news of a "certain medical university" rigging the scores of female students. While she technically doesn't name the university, this is pretty obviously in reference to the [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/08/02/a-medical-school-in-japan-didnt-want-too-many-women-so-it-lowered-their-grades/ Tokyo Medical University scandal,]] in which it was revealed that the entrance exam results of female applicants has been automatically lowered for several years in an attempt to keep the ratio of women in each class of students below 30 percent. In particular, Alisa's subplot involving the Magic Academy is pretty nakedly a reference to this.
* ''Holding Up The Universe'' by Jennifer Niven involves an obese young woman who is subject to unwanted media attention after her house has to be partially demolished in order to get her to the hospital, loosely based on the case of Georgia Davis, but taking place in the US rather than the UK.
