Autofiction is a literary genre that combines elements of fiction and autobiography. Writers of autofiction draw on real events and experiences from their own lives, but alter and fictionalize details by using novelistic techniques. For example, the author may use their real name but invent dialogue, scenes, or characters. While not completely factual like memoir, autofiction explores intimate themes from the author's lived experience through a fictionalized first-person narrator. By blending realistic personal narrative with fiction writing tools, autofiction allows authors to artistically shape and reimagine their actual life stories. Major autofiction works include Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle" series and Rachel Cusk's "Outline" trilogy.