Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
10 best books like Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Mark Kramer): Page After Page: Discover the Confidence & Passion You Need to Start Writing & Keep Writing (No Matter What!), The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Writing Creative Nonfiction, Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction, Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction, Writing the Memoir, Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
| Author | Heather Sellers |
| ISBN | 1582973121 |
You Are a Writer--Believe It!
False starts. Self-doubt. Mind games. They end the moment you pick up this book. With an inspiring mix of humor, wisdom, and creativity, Page After Page shows you how to find the courage and commitment to start writing and keep writing.
Author Heather...
| Author | Priscilla Long |
| ISBN | 0984242104 |
Suitable for both beginning and advanced writers of fiction and nonfiction, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life distills 20 years of teaching and creative thought by the well-published author Priscilla Long. The Writer's Portable Mentor helps writers understand...
| Author | Robert L. Root Jr. |
| ISBN | 0321434846 |
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 1884910505 |
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....
| Author | Bret Anthony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0812975480 |
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering...
| Author | Lee Gutkind |
| ISBN | 0393065618 |
Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exaggerations—or are partially fabricated. But what are the parameters of creative nonfiction? Keep It Real begins by defining creative nonfiction....
| Author | Jon Franklin |
| ISBN | 0452272955 |
The new "nonfiction"—the adaptation of storytelling techniques to journalistic articles in the manner of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and John McPhee—is an innovative genre that has been awarded virtually every Pulitzer Prize for literary journalism since 1979. And now Jon Franklin, himself...
| Author | Judith Barrington |
| ISBN | 0933377509 |
Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics...
| Author | William Zinsser |
| ISBN | 0395901502 |
An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir
Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing...
| Author | Louise DeSalvo |
| ISBN | 0807072435 |
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most...
| Author | Susan M. Tiberghien |
| ISBN | 1600940587 |
Whether you are a writer of fiction or essays, or want to explore poetry or memoir, Tiberghien's twelve fundamental lessons will help you discover and develop your own distinct voice. Tiberghien's inventive exercises focus on the processes unique to each genre, while also offering skills applicable...
| Author | Roy Peter Clark |
| ISBN | 0316126713 |
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.
In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the...
For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate...
Gerard covers everything from getting the assignment to conducting a stirring interview to working with an editor - including how to go "where the story lives" to experience the first-hand emotional facts - sights, smells, sounds - that will give your story immediacy; find the right form for the story...
| Author | Dinty W. Moore |
| ISBN | 1582977968 |
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"--a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is...
| Author | The New York Times |
| ISBN | 0805070850 |
Now in paperback, today's most celebrated writers explore literature and the literary life in an inspirational collection of original essays.
By turns poignant, hilarious, and practical, Writers on Writing brings together more than forty of contemporary literature's finest voices.
Pieces...
Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.
The New New Journalists are first and foremost...
| Author | William E. Blundell |
| ISBN | 0452261589 |
"Spot" or one-event news, written for print, employs a standard format, usually called "inverted pyramid." (Get the most important who-what-when-where-why-how up front, and as the paragraphs roll on, make the supporting information less and less vital to the reader's understanding of the story.)...
| Author | Jack R. Hart |
| ISBN | 0375423273 |
A practical, innovative step-by-step approach to the writing process from one of the most acclaimed writing coaches in the country
In "A Writer's Coach," Jack Hart-a managing editor at "The Oregonian"-shares the wisdom with which he has coached reporters to Pulitzer Prize--winning success....
| Author | Arthur Plotnik |
| ISBN | 0375721150 |
When too tightly leashed, writing chokes and loses its vitality. Although the rules of composition popularized in William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's Elements of Style have been de rigueur for decades, they won't exactly set your writing free.
To the rescue comes Spunk & Bite, a guide...
| Author | Susan Bell |
| ISBN | 0393057526 |
The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood—or simply overlooked—art of editing. Brimming with examples, quotes, and case studies that include an illuminating discussion of Max Perkins's editorial collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great Gatsby, this book...
| Author | Susan Rabiner |
| ISBN | 0393324613 |
Over 50,000 books are published in America each year, the vast majority nonfiction. Even so, many writers are stymied in getting their books published, never mind gaining significant attention for their ideas—and substantial sales. This is the book editors have been recommending to would-be...
