Literature imitating Life

Or Life imitating Literature?

This is discussed very well in Wikipedia's entry on Life imitating Art.

It is also discussed, at great length, in the course, I am taking Masterpieces of World Literature.  That makes a big point of noting that many of these masterpieces were written to entertain the common people of the time.

I will take this further by noting that The Book of Mormon, was written by Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, as literature to satisfy the needs of Industrial workers. It was a response to their difficult working conditions and continues to be a response to the difficult living conditions we still have.