In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction (edited by Lee Gutkind
) gathers the best essays published in Creative Nonfiction
over its first ten years of publication to create a book - part writing-manual, part prose anthology - that reflects what creative nonfiction writing is really about: Good, old-fashioned reporting plus insight, narrative, reflection, and wisdom.
In Fact is 440 pages long and is published by W.W. Norton. The book was made possible by funding from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
first ten years of existence. Culled from the 300 pieces published in the journal themselves chosen from over 10,000 manuscripts, the stories reprinted in In Fact showcase the possibilities of the emergent genre of creative nonfiction in pieces by already famous authors, and those surely destined to be so.
Each author has also included a reflection on the process of composing his or her particular piece included in this anthology. These reflective pieces form a core of valuable tips and advice for those hoping to find their own writing voice.
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind is an American writer.Gurkind is the founder of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction and the author or editor of over a dozen books. He started the first ever MFA program in creative nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh...
) gathers the best essays published in Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction (magazine)
Creative Nonfiction is a literary magazine based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The journal was founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993 making it the first literary magazine to publish, exclusively and on a regular basis, high quality nonfiction prose...
over its first ten years of publication to create a book - part writing-manual, part prose anthology - that reflects what creative nonfiction writing is really about: Good, old-fashioned reporting plus insight, narrative, reflection, and wisdom.
In Fact is 440 pages long and is published by W.W. Norton. The book was made possible by funding from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
Selection Process
In Fact offers twenty-five stories - the twenty-five best that were published in Creative Nonfiction'sCreative Nonfiction (magazine)
Creative Nonfiction is a literary magazine based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The journal was founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993 making it the first literary magazine to publish, exclusively and on a regular basis, high quality nonfiction prose...
first ten years of existence. Culled from the 300 pieces published in the journal themselves chosen from over 10,000 manuscripts, the stories reprinted in In Fact showcase the possibilities of the emergent genre of creative nonfiction in pieces by already famous authors, and those surely destined to be so.
Each author has also included a reflection on the process of composing his or her particular piece included in this anthology. These reflective pieces form a core of valuable tips and advice for those hoping to find their own writing voice.
Book Contents
- Introduction: Notes for Young Writers - Annie DillardAnnie DillardAnnie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for General...
- The Creative Nonfiction Police? - Lee GutkindLee GutkindLee Gutkind is an American writer.Gurkind is the founder of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction and the author or editor of over a dozen books. He started the first ever MFA program in creative nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh...
- Three Spheres - Lauren SlaterLauren SlaterLauren Slater is an American psychologist and writer. She is the author of six books, including Welcome To My Country , Prozac Diary , and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir...
- Looking at Emmit Till - John Edgar WidemanJohn Edgar WidemanJohn Edgar Wideman is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.-Early life:...
- Shunned - Meredith HallMeredith HallMeredith Hall is a writer and professor at University of New Hampshire. She is the author of the memoir Without a Map.At age forty-four, Meredith graduated from Bowdoin College and began writing...
- An Album Quilt - John McPheeJohn McPheeJohn Angus McPhee is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction....
- Dinner at Uncle Boris's - Charles SimicCharles SimicDušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
- Prayer Dogs - Terry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest Williams , is an American author, conservationist and activist.Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah in which she was raised...
- What Is It We Really Harvestin' Here? - Ntozake ShangeNtozake ShangeNtozake Shange born October 18, 1948, is an American playwright, and poet. As a self proclaimed black feminist, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to race and feminism....
- The Brown Study - Richard RodriguezRichard RodriguezRichard Rodriguez is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , a narrative about his intellectual development.- Early life :...
- Killing Wolves - Sherry Simpson
- Being Brians - Brian DoyleBrian DoyleBrian Doyle may refer to:*Brian J. Doyle , former press secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security*Brian Doyle , former Major League Baseball infielder*Brian Doyle , Canadian writer...
- Language at Play - Diane AckermanDiane AckermanDiane Ackerman is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural History of the Senses. Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science...
- Finders Keepers: The Story of Joey Coyle - Mark BowdenMark BowdenNot to be confused with Mark Bowden, U.N. Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Somalia.Mark Robert Bowden is an American writer and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland...
- Notes from a Difficult Case - Ruthann Robson
- Adventures in Celestial Navigation - Philip Gerard
- Leaving Babylon: A Walk Through the Jewish Divorce Ceremony - Judyth Har-Even
- Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain - Floyd SklootFloyd SklootFloyd Skloot is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist who has often written about the search for meaning through personal loss and the struggle for coherence in a fragmented world...
- Joe Stopped By - Andrei Corescu
- In the Woods - Leslie Rubinkowski
- Sa'm Pedi - Madison Smartt BellMadison Smartt BellMadison Smartt Bell is an American novelist. He was raised Nashville, and lived in New York, and London before settling in Baltimore, Maryland....
- Going Native - Francine ProseFrancine ProseFrancine Prose is an American writer. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991....
- Chimera - Gerald N. Callahan
- Mixed-Blood Stew - Jewell Parker RhodesJewell Parker RhodesJewell Parker Rhodes is an American novelist.Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Rhodes is the Artistic Director for Global Engagement and the Piper Endowed Chair of...
- Why I Ride - Jana Richman
- Delivering Lily - Phillip LopatePhillip LopateDoctor Phillip Lopate is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. He is the younger brother of radio host Leonard Lopate.-Early life and education:...