Sentences with phrase «nonfiction account of»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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America's fascination with true crime storytelling has existed for quite some time, with Truman Capote noting in the 1960s that he'd created a new art form (the «nonfiction novel») with In Cold Blood, his best - selling account of the gruesome murder of a Kansas family.

In the realm of nonfiction, the «This American Life» episode «Reunited (And It Feels So Good)» features a fascinating account of one couple's attempt to bring back a beloved Brahman bull through cloning.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

This nonfiction narrative is an account of two battles of the Revolutionary War, Trenton and Princeton.

She has also written several bestselling books of nonfiction, including, Operating Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during her son's first year followed by Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son, and a writing guide: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

(I suspect there are many nonfiction models for accounts of family life where some Skinner - like research experiment has played out, seemingly harmless and engrossing at the time but with later dire consequences, but there is no fiction I have ever heard of with Fowler's particular subject.)

Preston's account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative.

Some of today's most influential young adult authors come together in this highly personal nonfiction collection of original essays, poems, and letters, each a first - hand account that ultimately strives to inspire hope.

His electrifying narrative — filled with riveting details about the miners» existence underground — is the first official account of the ordeal and a book that's destined to become a nonfiction classic.

Focusing this intense, insightful nonfiction narrative on her experiences with patients who died, Pauline Chen presents a compelling account of her career as a surgeon.

Our top pick in nonfiction this month is Michael Finkel's The Stranger in the Woods, an intriguing account of the life and eventual capture of Christopher Knight, a hermit who lived in the Maine woods alone for almost three decades, burglarizing camps and cottages for food and other necessities.

Among current writers of narrative nonfiction, none can top Larson's skill for weaving parallel story lines into a gripping account of a historical event.

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.

Both also distribute their published works on Kindle Singles, with several starring on the bestseller list there, including The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin (Byliner) by Elizabeth Mitchell, a 44 - page true - crime account of a brutal bank heist taking place in turn - of - the - century Manhattan, and Blind Sight (Atavist) by Chris Colin, a 38 - page nonfiction narrative about a Hollywood movie producer's horrific car wreck that killed his new wife and his subsequent 10 - year journey recovering from devastating brain injuries.

Many people think of nonfiction as a chronological account of a discovery or event.

According to Allwords.com, nonfiction is «written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events.»

Stacy Schiff, author of The Witches, a brilliant, exceptionally well - researched account of the 1692 Salem witch trials, says her number one requirement when writing her prize - winning nonfiction books is «a big desk, an enormous desk!»