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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction »

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Authors: Lee Gutkind (Editor), Annie Dillard
ISBN-13: 9780393326659, ISBN-10: 0393326659
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind is the founder and editor of the literary journal Creative Nonfiction and a pioneer in the field of narrative nonfiction. Writer-in-residence at Arizona State University, Gutkind is also the editor of In Fact, the author of Almost Human, and has written books about baseball, health care, travel, and technology.

Annie Dillard is a noted novelist and poet.

Book Synopsis

Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.

Table of Contents

Introduction : notes for young writers
The creative nonfiction police?
Three spheres3
Looking at Emmett Till24
Shunned49
An album quilt71
Dinner at Uncle Boris's85
Prayer dogs92
What is it we really harvestin' here?109
The brown study119
Killing wolves133
Being Brians163
Language at play174
Finders keepers : the story of Joey Coyle189
Notes from a difficult case226
Adventures in celestial navigation245
Leaving Babylon : a walk through the Jewish divorce ceremony269
Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain288
Joe stopped by307
In the woods318
Sa'm Pedi331
Going native356
Chimera368
Mixed-blood stew382
Why I ride395
Delivering Lily419

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