Writing Creative Nonfiction

Publisher Marketing: Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction"Writing Creative Nonfiction" presents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including: Terry Tempest Williams - Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength. Alan Cheuse - Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live. Phillip Lopate - Build your narrator–yourself–into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen. Robin Hemley - Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive. Carolyn Forche - Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction. Dinty W. Moore - Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction. Philip Gerard - Understand the narrative stance–why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction–whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history–a welcome, rewarding endeavor. You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more–selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come! Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2001 pg. 1443 (EAN 9781884910500, Paperback) Library Journal 06/01/2001 pg. 178 (EAN 9781884910500, Paperback) Foreword 12/01/2001 pg. 49 (EAN 9781884910500, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 72 (EAN 9781884910500, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Forche, Carolyn Carolyn Forche is the author of Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award; The Country Between Us, which received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America; and The Angel of History, awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Centuly Poetry of Witness. Recently she was presented with the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture in Stockholm. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son. Contributor Bio:  Gerard, Philip Philip Gerard is the author of three novels and five books of nonfiction including "The Patron Saint of Dreams". He lives on Whiskey Creek near the Intracoastal Waterway and sails his sloop "Suspense on the Atlantic Ocean".