In 1948 he went to Australia for two months, a trip that inspired his most popular novel, A Town Like Alice.

Now, her grandson Charlie Russell introduces the journal she kept of her turbulent trip, which helped inspire her final novel.

Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down', recalls the meadows in Berkshire that inspired his novel - but are now under threat from developers.

A brief liaison with a prostitute inspired his best-known novel, Bubu de Montparnasse (1901), which earned him critical as well as popular attention.

He also documents, in his introduction to the 2011 New York Review of Books edition, several unrelated bits of "compost" which inspired his novel.

Sinclair had spent about six months investigating the Chicago meatpacking industry for Appeal to Reason, work which inspired his novel.

His experiences at Guildford in part inspired his novel of 1937 The Young Desire It.

The experience inspired his first novel, L'Europe Buissonnière, which appeared in 1949.

The documentary inspired her second novel, titled Return To Auschwitz, which was published in 1981.

His experience with these two companies inspired his second novel, Team Player (2001).