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English 315 Creative Nonfiction

Suggested Texts:

  • The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction . 2nd Edition. Robert L. Root and Michael Steinberg, Eds.
  • In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind, Annie Dillard. Norton & Company (November 30, 2004)
  • Contemporary Creative Nonfiction : I & Eye by B. Minh Nguyen, Porter Shreve, Longman (July 15, 2004)
  • Writing Creative Nonfiction: Fiction Techniques for Crafting Great Nonfiction by Theodore Rees Cheney, Ten Speed Press; Revised edition (July 1, 2001).
  • Barack Obama. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
  • Joan Didion. The White Album .
  • William Least-Heat Moon, Selections from Blue Highways and River Horse
  • Alice Kaplan. French Lessons: A Memoir .
  • Philip Lopate. The Personal Essay .
  • George Orwell. Down and Out in Paris and London .
  • David Sedaris. Me Talk Pretty One Day .
  • Susan Sontag. Illness as Metaphor.

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