David Leavitt — American Novelist born on June 23, 1961,
David Leavitt is an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction... (wikipedia)
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.
