Sentences with phrase «nonfiction account»

Lizzie Stark is the author of Leaving Mundania, a narrative nonfiction account of LARP due out from Chicago Review Press in May 2012.

The winners include Louise Erdrich's LaRose (Harper), a haunting novel about an accidental shooting and its aftermath for two Native American families; and Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown), a narrative nonfiction account of tenants and landlords in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sebastian Junger burst onto the literary scene in 1997 with «The Perfect Storm,» his riveting nonfiction account of the loss of a fishing vessel and its crew from Gloucester, Mass., which was adapted for a 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark...

Her first book, «What Stands in a Storm,» is a literary nonfiction account of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history.

Fever Pitch, the latest feature from shock - comedy siblings Peter and Bobby Farrelly, is based on Hornby's 1992 debut book, a diaristic nonfiction account of his lifelong obsession with English soccer.

Since then, publishers have struggled with nonfiction accounts that are not entirely so (James Frey's A Million Little Pieces comes readily to mind).

In his gripping nonfiction account of the ill - advised 1879 expedition to the North Pole, Sides follows the shipwrecked crew of the USS Jeannette as they struggle to survive the Arctic tundra.

Readers intrigued by the Antarctic setting in McCaughrean's Printz winner will enjoy this riveting nonfiction account of an ill - fated expedition to the South Pole.

A favorite son of the Work Center, and one of today's most widely honored writers, Michael Cunningham is the author of arguably the best narrative nonfiction account of our town: Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown.

I want her to know...» If you want a nonfiction account of what happens when fathers encourage daughters to get «in touch» with their sexuality because «it is not so big a deal,» read Hustled: My Journey From Fear to Faith (Westminster / John Knox), Tonya Flynt «Vega's sad tale of what it was like growing up as Larry Flynt's daughter.

What better, in the «no place of cyberspace,» to discover than Heather Shumaker's nonfiction account of land reclamation and preservation.

If you've read «Into Thin Air,» the nonfiction account by Jon Krakauer (who was on one of the two expeditions that day), you know who's not going to come back.

The Grand Illusion has a three - day (May 4 - 6) run of William Friedkin's documentary The Devil and Father Damorth, a nonfiction account of director's encounter with a real - life exorcist.

September 9, 2014 • Patrimony is a nonfiction account — almost a diary — that Roth wrote about the last years of his father's life.

Based on Jane Wilde Hawking's nonfiction account of her marriage to Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything is an Instagram - filtered romance with an astrophysics backdrop that earned Eddie Redmayne the Oscar for Best Actor.

Directed by Paul Greengrass; scripted by Billy Ray from Phillips» nonfiction account.

Working from a loose adaptation of Mark Baglio's nonfiction account of the Vatican's boot camp for exorcists, director Mikael Hafstrom painted himself into a corner: His new movie had to be unnerving as well as credible from a psychological standpoint.

The source material for the movie came from John Pearson's «Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty,» a nonfiction account of the crime.

To prepare for his character, Teardrop, Hawkes read «Almost Midnight,» a nonfiction account of the Ozark's drug - dealing subculture.

Sarah is the author of Hope Against Hope, a nonfiction account of New Orleans schools post Hurricane - Katrina, which she reported as a Spencer Education Journalism fellow.

Less than a year after the publication of South of Broad, Pat Conroy has signed a deal to write My Life in Books, a nonfiction account of the «people, writers and books that made him into the reader and writer he is today, from Tolstoy to Thomas Wolfe and beyond,» according to an announcement yesterday in Publisher's Marketplace.

This nonfiction account of the lives of the three Jerome sisters — rich Americans who married British aristos, and one of whom became the mother of Winston Churchill — is a «beguiling chronicle» of the Edwardian era, replete with descriptions of homes, dresses and extramarital affairs with royals.

Finding George Orwell in Burma - a nonfiction account of modern - day Burma.

I'd previously known her from her fiction, but Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is her nonfiction account of the trips to Yugoslavia that she took with her husband, Henry Maxwell Andrews, between 1936 and 1938.

Though he contemplated turning his observations into a nonfiction account of the political process, Neel instead turned to fiction to craft a gripping look at what might happen if nefarious forces tried to subvert a presidential election.

Rising on Amazon is a nonfiction account of a fabled sea - faring mystery, Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson (Norton; Blackstone Audio; OverDrive Sample), about the sad fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew aboard the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.

These nonfiction accounts of real - life mysteries are a few of our editors» favorite picks for truly gripping reading.

This book, Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi's The Monster of Florence, is perhaps even more chilling, since it is a nonfiction account of a series of murders that happened...

Like Cara, Cammie McGovern is the mother of an autistic boy; she says that about four years ago she started writing a nonfiction account of the time just before and after her son's diagnosis.

Having said that, Fieldwork started off as Berlinski's attempt to write a nonfiction account of the conversion of many of the Lisu people to Christianity, and many of the characters in the book are inspired by real people, as explained in the interview.

This attention - grabbing introduction to Kevin Fedarko «s «Rocketing Into the Great Unknown: The Emerald Mile on the Colorado River» appeared in Outside Online in conjunction with the launch of the author's nonfiction account, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Though the Heart of the Grand Canyon.

Patrik Ourednik experiments with form in Europeana, a nonfiction account of the twentieth century, to generate an objective historical account.

Suppose your book is a nonfiction account of raising a child with special needs.

The Atlanta History Center presents the best - selling author speaking about his nonfiction account of the tribulations of his white working - class family.