Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

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Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity to use the top-notch writing exercises collected in NOW WRITE! NONFICTION - culled from the personal stashes of bestselling and critically acclaimed nonfiction authors like legendary essayist, Gay Talese (Thy Neighbour's Wife); New York TImes bestselling authors, A. J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically), Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) and Reza Aslan (No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam); 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, John Matteson (Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father); creative nonfiction icon, Lee Gutkind (Creative Nonfiction magazine) and many other top biographers, journalists and teachers of creative nonfiction. NOW WRITE! NONFICTION will take you into the field with creative nonfiction's master practitioners: * Peek inside Gay Talese's mind, as he shares the "writer's u road map" he used to organise information for his classic book Thy Neighbor's Wife and his seminal essay "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." * Discover Lee Gutkind's simple trick, performed with a highlighter, that can help any writer identify whether their piece is truly showing action or just "telling." * Learn about the important role of speculation and conjecture in creating lively nonfiction from Lisa Knapp.

Sherry Ellis is the editor of the acclaimed and widely popular Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers and has worked as a personal writing coach. Her author interviews have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Writer's Chronicle, Glimmer Train and AGNI, as well as other literary and arts magazines.