Fiction coming true?

[Insaanah]

Some may be aware of the death of the author Iain M. Banks recently. He was writing his latest novel about a man with terminal cancer, when, near the end of writing the book, he discovered that he himself had terminal cancer. He has since passed away.

On Sunday, it was revealed the book - to be released on 20 June - would detail the physical and emotional strain of cancer.

It describes the final weeks of the life of a man in his 40s who has terminal cancer.

Speaking to the BBC's Kirsty Wark, Banks said he was some 87,000 words into writing the book when he was diagnosed with his own illness.

"I had no inkling. So it wasn't as though this is a response to the disease or anything, the book had been kind of ready to go," he said.

"And then 10,000 words from the end, as it turned out, I suddenly discovered that I had cancer."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047

Is anyone aware of other examples of fiction people have written whose storylines then actually happened in real life?