Robert Root

Broschiertes Buch

Nonfictionist's Guide

On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction

Beschreibung

As a vital and growing literary genre, nonfiction impacts bestseller lists, writing programs, writers' workshops, and academic conferences on creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. In a lively exploration of its poetics, The Nonfictionist's Guide examines the elements of contemporary nonfiction and suggests imaginative approaches to writing it. Beginning with a new definition of nonfiction and explanation of the nonfiction motive, Robert Root guides both readers and writers through the innovative and stimulating ways we write nonfiction now.

Autor

Robert Root's narratives of history and place include Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now, and Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth, and the essay collection Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place. He is the editor of the anthology Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and co-editor of the anthology The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. He has published and presented widely on creative nonfiction.His essay "A Double Life," published in Writing on the Edge, won the 2007 Donald Murray Award for Best Essay on Writing and/or Teaching. "Postscript to a Postscript to 'The Ring of Time'," published in The Pinch, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the Council of Wisconsin Writers Short Nonfiction Award. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Isle Royale National Park, and a visiting writer at the Kachemak Bay, Sanibel Island, and Geneva Writers Conferences. He lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Further information is available at www.rootwriting.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780742556188
• ISBN-10: 0742556182
• Artikelnr.: 24657146