If I were Stephen King...
I'd at least have gotten an agent to read my whole manuscript by now.
I've posted pictures of Mary Anne as Susan Sto Helit. The kind of person your kids may not want teaching them, but the kind of person they really need.
Along those same lines, Lindy might be Magrat Garlick.
I see ER as Ernest Hemingway without the issues.
That's just off the top of my head. I'd have to do some real work to make up an exhaustive list that does you all justice.