Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work, including essays, expository prose, and documentaries, whose content is based on fact and is not imagined.
- noun Works in this category.
- noun A work in this category.
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- noun Written
works intended to givefacts , or trueaccounts of real things and events. Often usedattributively .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun prose writing that is not fictional
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Using composites characters or scenes in nonfiction is controversial.
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Laura Cross is an author, screenwriter, ghostwriter, freelance book editor, and writing coach specializing in nonfiction books and script adaptation (book-to-film projects).
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Secrets Every Writer Should Know About Query Letters 2010
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Another work, which demonstrates the conviction behind London's nonfiction, is his introduction to Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman.
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Another of the difficulties in compiling London's complete nonfiction is the curious fact that many of his articles were reprinted under different titles.
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Without which a book of nonfiction is most likely fiction.
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Thus, Rose seems to be suggesting, "story" in nonfiction ought not to be an end in itself, but rather a strategy used to communicate "a larger idea."
Style in Fiction 2009
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The top ten bestsellers in nonfiction, also as recorded by Publishers Weekly;
A Progressive on the Prairie » A Books of the Century reading challenge » Print 2010
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CREATIVE MEMOIRS WORKSHOP, guidance on documenting memories in nonfiction, short fiction or poetry. 2-4 p.m.,
Southern Maryland community calendar, Sept. 30-Oct. 7, 2010 Post 2010
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The top ten bestsellers in nonfiction, also as recorded by Publishers Weekly;
A Books of the Century reading challenge « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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My inclination to read nonfiction is starting to grow back!
mrissa: books read, early February mrissa 2010
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