real-person fiction

real-person fiction (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of real person fiction.
   • 2018, Mel Stanfill, “The Fan Fiction Gold Rush, Generational Turnover, and the Battle for Fandom’s Soul”, in Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Scott, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, Routledge, →ISBN, part II (Technologies and Practices):

     Similarly, some old rules about acceptable content, like the prohibition on real-person fiction, are falling out of favor (Waysdorf, 2015), again valorizing individual desire over existing community norms.

   • 2019, Owen G. Parry, ““Shipping” (as) Fandom and Art Practice”, in Catherine Grant, Kate Random Love, editors, Fandom as Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers, Goldsmiths Press, →ISBN, part II (Fan Communities: From Screen to Stage to Network), page 128:

     There are infinite possibilities for re-working popular texts, but fanfiction mostly focuses on relationships between characters, or celebrities in real-person fiction (RPF).

   • 2020 March 11, Devoney Looser, “Austen was no plain Jane”, in National Post, volume 22, number 114, page FP12, column 5:

     A piece of real-person fiction, using Austen as a character, appeared in the Lady’s Magazine in 1823.