1.   Her first novel was inspired by her early childhood.

2.   Since then, the event has inspired two novels, a documentary film, a book of photographs, several Internet Web sites and a dozen academic conferences.

3.   That sense of complete disorientation, without a tree or even a sunset to guide her, helped inspire the novel.

4.   The bound feet, he said, were present in the real-life story he heard years ago that inspired the novel.

5.   The Martha Moxley murder has already inspired a novel, a miniseries, two nonfiction books and a generation of speculation.

6.   The novel was inspired by a Muslim revolt in Setif, Algeria, against French occupiers.