Abstract:  What are the ethical issues involved--if any--in fictionalizing the life of the Famous Figure, the Public Figure, the Historical Figure? How does fidelity to "what really happened" constrain--or liberate--a writer who fictionalizes a Famous/Public/ Historical Figure (FPH)? How do you write a story about Elvis Presley--or JFK, or Sylvia Plath, or Hitler--and tell your story, rather than simply paraphrase the biographer, the historian, the collective cultural memory? And: why write fictions about FPHs at all? I'll approach these questions obliquely, via demonstration--a reading of an FPH fiction entitled "Somoza's Dream"--about the assassination in 1980 of deposed Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle. (Note that coarse and vulgar men move through the world of this story. There will be profanity.)