Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction - Softcover

Sondra Perl; Mimi Schwartz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618370757 ISBN 13: 9780618370757

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2006

Synopsis

This innovative book teaches students how to write informative and engaging nonfiction that emphasizes voice and creativity and incorporates observation, research, memory, and point of view. Writing True serves as a valuable core textbook or a supplement for any creative writing or composition course with an emphasis on creative nonfiction. A solid pedagogical approach shows students how to be true to capturing the real world with integrity and creativity. The first part of the book, "Writing Creative Nonfiction," offers ten chapters of practical guidance, skill-building exercises, and ideas to help writers develop their creativity. The second part of the book, "Reading Creative Nonfiction," contains an anthology divided into Memoir, Personal Essay, Portrait, Essay of Place, and Literary Journalism. Selections include works by Nora Ephron, Tracy Kidder, Eric Liu, David Sedaris, and other well-known masters of the creative nonfiction genre. The anthology also includes a section entitled "Stories of Craft," with four prominent writers, including John Irving and Sue Miller, describing the challenges and rewards of writing creative nonfiction.

About this title

About the Author:

Mimi Schwartz is a professor emerita in the writing program at Richard Stockton University. She is the award-winning author of When History is Personal (Nebraska, 2018), Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village (Nebraska, 2008), and Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed (Nebraska, 2003) and is the coauthor of Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Non-Fiction. Her essays have been widely anthologized, and seven of them have been listed as Notables in the Best American Series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618370757
• ISBN 13: 9780618370757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396