Nonfiction genre

Nonfiction - is the opposite of fiction. Books that are Nonfiction, or true, are about real things, people, events, and places. Other works can legitimately be either fiction or Nonfiction, such as letters, magazine articles, histories, websites, speeches and travelogues. Although they are mostly either one or the other it is not uncommon for there to be a blend of both, particularly non-fiction with a dash of fiction for added spice.

 Literary Nonfiction, Factual fiction, Documentary narrative, the literature of actuality. This powerful, ever-controversial genre is called by many names including Creative Nonfiction, which is definitely a growing and developing genre.

What is creative Nonfiction?

Creative Nonfiction is that branch of writing which employs literary techniques and artistic vision usually associated with fiction or poetry to report on actual persons and events. Forms of creative Nonfiction can include essays, diaries, autobiography, biographies, magazine writing, travel writing, nature writing, science writing, histories, journalism, dramatic, true stories using scenes, dialogue, detailed descriptions and other techniques usually employed by poets and fiction writers about important subjects - from politics, to economics, to sports, to the arts and sciences, to racial relations, and family relations.

 Creative Nonfiction can in fact take any form, from the letter to the list, from the biography to the memoir, from the journal to the obituary. This is a relatively recently recognized genre that involves writing from personal experience and/or reporting on other peoples experiences. The best creative non-fiction work usually involves conducting a considerable amount of research.

 Example of non fiction books are Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild, Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love, and Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point.