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Welcome to the Ask Marney Column by Marney Makridakis Dear Marney,       I want to write a fictional story, but use real people as characters. These people are popular, but dead (i.e. Ezra Pound). Is there a law against that? Dear Reader:      It can be done, without legal backlash, as long as the story or novel has some kind of statement at the beginning indicating that the events, characterization, etc., are fictionalized. Or "are based on research but fictionalized for this story." For complete information on this topic, I recommend consulting a book on legal issues for writers, such as The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference by Tad Crawford and Kay Murray. back to Index