Five times authors included themselves as characters...and it worked

At the B&N Reads blog Jeff Somers tagged "five times authors included themselves as characters and hit it out of the park." One entry on the list:Bret Easton Ellis in Lunar Park

One of the little-discussed aspects of Ellis’s writing is the fact that over the course of his novels he’s created a very complex and inter-related universe. Characters and events appear in multiple books, meaning all