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Ficticious Addresses in Novels
by sarah
(Chicago)
Question: When writing a novel is it okay to use ficticious names of streets, bus lines, schools, libraries, etc. that do not exist in the city that is used for the setting of the novel?
Answer: Absolutely, especially when you don't want to cause problems for people who live at a real address. For example, for many decades the bank at 221B Baker Street in London had to deal with letters arriving addressed to Sherlock Holmes. And in recent years, the Louvre Museum in Paris has had to deal with tourists looking for clues to the Da Vinci Code.
Of course, in the latter case, the use of real places was an essential part of the story. In most stories it's not.
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