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Books on: nonfiction novel

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The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel

Book by Bland Simpson; University of North Carolina Press, 1993

Subjects:

Cropsey, Nell--D. 1901, Murder Victims--North Carolina--Elizabeth City--Biography, Murder--North Carolina--Elizabeth City, Murderers--North Carolina--Elizabeth City--Biography, Wilcox, Jim

Collections: Entire Library

...Cropsey THE MYSTERY OF Beautiful Nell Corpsey A NONFICTION NOVEL Bland Simpson The University of North Carolina...Bland. The mystery of beautiful Nell Cropsey: a nonfiction novel/by Bland Simpson. p. cm. ISBN 0-8078-2120-9 alk...
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The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction

Book by Barbara Lounsberry; Greenwood Press, 1990

Subjects:

American Prose Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Fiction, Journalism--United States--History--20th Century, Nonfiction Novel--History And Criticism, Reportage Literature, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today's most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. This book examines literary nonfiction in the broad context of the prose narrative form and discusses the role ...
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The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today's most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. This book examines literary nonfiction in the broad context of the prose narrative form and discusses the role it plays in the American literary tradition. Drawing from personal interviews with Gay Talese and John McPhee and including new interpretations of the works of Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer, The Art of Fact is a timely call for critical appreciation of the artistry of nonfiction and offers valuable insights to both students and fans of contemporary nonfiction.
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The Rhetoric of the Other Literature

Book by W. Ross Winterowd; Southern Illinois University Press, 1990

Subjects:

American Prose Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Canon (Literature), Journalism--United States--History--20th Century, Literary Form, Nonfiction Novel--History And Criticism, Reportage Literature, American--History And Criticism, Rhetoric--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...century. 5. Canon Literature 6. Nonfiction novel. 7. Literary form. I. Title...discuss what is now called "the nonfiction novel" e.g., In Cold Blood and...with In Cold Blood , the first nonfiction novel to become a national best seller...
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A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre

Book by Thomas B. Connery; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

American Prose Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction, Journalism--United States--History, Nonfiction Novel--History And Criticism, Reportage Literature, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

..."This book promises to be a useful reference source and would be a welcome addition to public and high school libraries....The book's focus makes it unique..." Booklist
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Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy

Book by Chris Anderson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1989

Subjects:

American Essays--History And Criticism, American Prose Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Prose Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, American Prose Literature--Study And Teaching (Higher), Journalism--United States, Reportage Literature, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel , Masud Zavarzadeh The Mythopoeic...Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel, and my Style as Argument: Contemporary...The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel . Urbana: U of Illinois P...

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Journal Articles on: nonfiction novel

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The Fairest in the Land: Blonde and Black Water, the Nonfiction Novels of Joyce Carol Oates

Journal article by Sharon Oard Warner; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 38, 2006

Subjects:

Black Water (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Blonde (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Monroe, Marilyn--Portrayals, Novels--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and Black Water, the Nonfiction Novels of Joyce Carol...crowding my desk, the short novel Black Water can be hidden...telling is this: as the novel wound down to its inexorable...the amorphous genres of nonfiction, history, and memoir...DeLillo has written a novel about that moment called...
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Books for Summer Reading

Journal article by Roger Soder; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 85, 2004

Subjects:

Nonfiction novel--Analysis, Nonfiction novels--Analysis, Summer reading programs--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Mexico, to Brooklyn. A work of nonfiction, the book is, at times, painful...survive our times. We chose his novel Half a Life (Vintage, 2002...result of ideological spite. The novel examines Willies struggle to...the battle of Gettysburg. The novel provides a soldiers eye view...
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Two Different Ethics: Philosophy and Literature

Journal article by James J. Snow; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 27, 1994

Subjects:

Fiction--Philosophy, Hardy, Thomas--Works, Nonfiction novel--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...re)turned to literature, especially the novel, with a more munificent attitude toward...knowledge; again, room is created for the novel as a source of knowledge. It is clear...Arabellas prophecy at the end of the novel suggests that Sue, too, will find resolution...
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WASHINGTON COMMENTARY: Therapeutic Reading for the Highly Educated

Journal article by Anne C. Lewis; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 85, 2004

Subjects:

Authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, LEWIS, ANNE C.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Nonfiction novel--Evaluation, Nonfiction novels--Evaluation, Reading--Health aspects, Writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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"The Last to See Them Alive": Panopticism, the Supervisory Gaze, and Catharsis in Capote's in Cold Blood

Journal article by Trenton Hickman; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 37, 2005

Subjects:

Capote, Truman--Criticism and interpretation, In Cold Blood (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...details necessary for his famous "nonfiction novel." One of the more vivid anecdotes...Capotes real contribution to the "nonfiction novel": the panopticon as template...Capote, In Cold Blood, and The Nonfiction Novel In Cold Blood exercises several...

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Magazine Articles on: nonfiction novel

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Can the Novel Be Saved?

Magazine article by Lisa Alther; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, January 2001

Subjects:

Literature, Modern--History, Modern literature--History, Nonfiction novel--Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction novels--Criticism and interpretation, Publishing industry--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Can the Novel Be Saved? by LISA ALTHER I REGARD THE NOVEL as something of an endangered species. For a long time...automobile. Before discussing how and why I fear the novel is changing in ways that seem in some ways unfortunate...
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Why 'Midnight' May Be Darker Than You Think

Magazine article by Marcel Dufresne; Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 37, May-June 1998

Subjects:

Berendt, John--Attitudes, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Book)--Evaluation, Nonfiction novel--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...February for staying on The New York Times nonfiction best seller list, Random House tossed...about whether the book belongs in the nonfiction category. Berendt, played by John...dismisses critics who suggest his book isnt nonfiction as "uninformed" in the ways of literary...
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A Bumptious Guide to Book Writing

Magazine article by Michela Wrong; New Statesman, Vol. 136, March 12, 2007

Subjects:

Africa--Political aspects, Literary themes--Analysis, Literature--Analysis, Literature--Themes, motives, Nonfiction novel--Authorship, Nonfiction novels--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Despite Its Distinguished Pedigree, Literary Reportage Has Never Been Publicly Celebrated with a Prize-Until Now. Isabel Hilton Reflects on the Problems of Judging This Underrated Genre

Magazine article by Isabel Hilton; New Statesman, Vol. 132, October 13, 2003

Subjects:

Literary prizes--Innovations, Nonfiction novel--Achievements and awards

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Fiction vs. Nonfiction: The Power of a Well-Made Story

Magazine article by Jay Neugeboren; Commonweal, Vol. 133, May 5, 2006

Subjects:

Fiction--Comparative analysis, Nonfiction--Comparative analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...interpretation of American mores." In our own time, influenced in part by the advent of the New Journalism and the "nonfiction novel" (see Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote), only one large-circulation magazine, the New Yorker, continues to run fiction in...

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Newspaper Articles on: nonfiction novel

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When Truth Is Stranger Thana Grisham Novel

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 29, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Innocent Man, his first work of nonfiction, the bestselling legal-thriller-writer...right. If this were a Grisham novel it would, for a start, have...Again, if this were a Grisham novel, Ward would have been another...defendant. But its Grishams novel-writing skills, rather than...
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Best-Selling Author to Discuss Her Latest Novel

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...both societal prejudices and human fallibility raised in the novel. On the other, I hope they are engaged, engrossed and entertained...wonderful characters. Q. Your writing spans several genres - nonfiction and fiction books and newspaper columns. Do you have a preference...
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50,000 Words. 30 Days. A Novel Approach to Writing

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pleasure of finding a cheerleader in his nonfiction loving wife, Cammie. "I found a fan in...some cases, ingenuity. Bright pads her novel by removing contractions, upping her count...078 words and, like most, an unfinished novel. "Ill probably finish it, but there are...
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N.Y. Newspaperman Jumps on New Beat: 'Cop Land' Novel: Reporter Adds Gritty Facts to Fiction

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, August 15, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...on new beat: Cop Land novel: Reporter adds gritty...McAlary had published three nonfiction chronicles of crime and...given week, and Ive done nonfiction books that sold well...You havent written a novel. " Nagged by this...early drafts of a first novel, Mr. McAlary agreed to...
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I Loved Two Men - and Had to Pick One of Them; Lionel Shriver, Who Foreshadowed the V Tech Massacre in Her Prize-Winning Novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, Reveals the Stark Choice That Inspired Her New Book

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 30, 2007

Subjects:

Massacres, Shriver, Lionel

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...partner of almost 10 years for him. It was the former lover, a nonfiction writer, who brought her to London. Shriver was born in North...but lived for six years in Belfast, where she set her third novel Ordinary Decent Criminals (shes published eight books). "I...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: nonfiction novel

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Capote, Truman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...include a gentle autobiographical novel, The Grass Harp (1951); a collection...1954); and two collections of nonfiction pieces, The Dogs Bark (1973...In 1966, Capote published his "nonfiction novel," In Cold Blood, a chilling account...
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Proulx, E. Annie

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...She was a journalist, wrote nonfiction articles for numerous publications...Other Stories (1988) and the novel Postcards (1992), won considerable...The Shipping News (1993), a novel that exhibits a superb sense...to create a home. After the novel Accordion Crimes (1996...
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Davis, Rebecca Harding

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Washington, Pa.; mother of Richard Harding Davis . Her early nonfiction pieces, particularly those collected under the title Life in the Iron Mills (1861), and her first novel, Margaret Howth (1862), foreshadowed the naturalistic techniques...
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Fowles, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...modern self-consciousness about 19th-century England and the form of the novel itself. Fowles also wrote The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas (1964) and other nonfiction works; The Ebony Tower (1974), a collection of stories; and the novels...
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Highsmith, Patricia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Salt (1952, originally pub. under the pseud. Claire Morgan), the nonfiction Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966, rev. ed. 1981), and the posthumously published novel Small g (1995, repr. 2004). Her chilling tales of crime and cruelty...

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