The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction—from one of its pioneer practitioners.
The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind guide, award-winning author, essayist, teacher, and editor Lee Gutkind gives you concise, pointed advice on every aspect of writing and selling your work, including:
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Guidelines for choosing provocative—and salable—topics
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Smart research techniques--including advice on conducting penetrating interviews and using electronic research tools
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Tips for focusing and structuring a piece for maximum effectiveness
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Advice on working successfully with editors and literary agents
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Book details
- Author
- Lee Gutkind
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 222
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Language Arts & Disciplines › Writing › Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs)
Language Arts & Disciplines › Writing › Authorship
Language Arts & Disciplines › Writing - Topics
- writing craft · research techniques · interviewing · publishing and selling · essay writing · narrative structure · literary journalism
- ISBN-13
- 9780471113560 (Paperback)9781630261832 (Hardcover)
About the author
LEE GUTKIND is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary magazine dedicated exclusively to narrative nonfiction, and the author or editor of more than 30 books covering subjects ranging from motorcycle subculture to organ transplantation and mental illness.
Gutkind received the American Heart Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scientific Journalism for Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation, and has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation. Vanity Fair recognized him as "the Godfather behind creative nonfiction."
Gutkind serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, where he was also instrumental in establishing the first MFA program in creative nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh.