It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
“I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.”
“You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.”