Trin5thperiod asked Laura Nowlin:

Was your book " If He Had Been With Me", base on real life events or was it fiction?

Laura Nowlin This is a difficult question to answer. I definitively drew inspiration from my own life, but not everything that happened to Autumn happened to me. There were Steps to Nowhere at my high school, but my friends and I didn't hang out there. My parents are happily married and my father is wonderful, but I did grow up in (the now famous) Ferguson, MO.
I did have a friend die expectantly but he was just a friend. He had Finny's sweet nature, but that's the only similarity between them.
Sorry if this answer is inadequate. In the end, yes, this book should be considered fiction; but all authors draw inspiration from their lives.

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