Sentences with phrase «work of nonfiction»

Consider writing a short work of nonfiction on one or more of these topics as well.

What it's about: This dense work of nonfiction lays out how the human need for energy has shaped our society throughout history.

Bibliography or reference list: The bibliography section, typically used in works of nonfiction, lists the sources for works used in the book.

By 1999, it was being hailed by the New York Public Library and Time magazine as one of the most important works of nonfiction of the 20th century.

In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including A Natural History of the Senses — a book beloved by readers all over the world and the volumes Deep Play, A...

This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.

It is a wildly ambitious work of nonfiction from a true American original.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author — «an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist» (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)-- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award - winning fiction.

Two other recent start - up digital publishers include Byliner and The Atavist, both focused on investigative reporting and other works of nonfiction narrative.

We'll examine recent works of nonfiction that are innovating the genre to try to learn from some new techniques involving collage, lyricism, and tone.

Research Editing may also be necessary for works of nonfiction.

To my lights, Wilson's book is one of the best works of nonfiction in recent memory and may very well go down as a classic of moral philosophy.

Jean Zimmerman is the author The Orphanmaster and several works of nonfiction, including Love Fiercely, a portrait of an iconic couple of Gilded Age Manhattan, and The Women of the House.

Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection — the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list — Blood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedition in which he mapped the Congo River.

Under the Banner of Heaven is a first - rate work of nonfiction from one of our most intrepid reporters.

Journalist Masha Gessen's new book chronicling Vladimir Putin's rise to power is a chilling and brave work of nonfiction.

In his first book - length work of nonfiction, Anderson skillfully interweaves details from Shostakovich's life into pivotal historical moments, particularly Russia's role in WWII, brilliantly elucidating some of the more puzzling parts of Russian history.

Along with reviewing literature for youth and troubleshooting the never - ending drama of middle school, she loves to read thick antiquated works of nonfiction, the dustier the better.

Respond by Wednesday for a chance to win: What is your favorite work of nonfiction?

This intriguing work of nonfiction vividly describes the perspectives Charles Darwin had in developing his evolutionary theories; that human beings and animals share a common ancestry.

There have been more posthumous Ernest Hemingway novels — Islands of the Stream, The Dangerous Summer, True at First Light and The Garden of Eden, not to mention works of nonfiction — than many writers produce during their lifetimes.

You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends is a unique, exhilarating work of nonfiction told through bold art and raw language.

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including A Natural History of the Senses — a book beloved by readers all over the world and the volumes Deep Play, A Slender Thread, The Rarest of the Rare, A Natural History of Love, The Moon by Whale Light, and a memoir on flying, On Extended Wings.

The result is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.

As for Gingrich, the former Speaker has written many works of nonfiction and alternate history novels.

From the best - selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.

As Editorial Director of Short Fuse Publishing, he has published The Short Fuse Guide to Query Letters, The Nonfiction Book Proposal Demystified, and many other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.

John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.

What it's about: This work of nonfiction intertwines an intimate experience of poverty in America with clear cut causation and politics, using the eviction crisis in Milwaukee, Wis., as a backdrop.

When you consider the sheer weight of his life's work — nearly 50 works of nonfiction, 20 of fiction, and four collections of poetry — it's hard to believe the man ever left his desk.

From a professional perspective, I would have been well - advised to follow it with a work of nonfiction of a similar kind.

As a work of nonfiction, it deserves its own nomenclature.

Shot in 1996 when director Michael Lucid was a senior in high school and then edited in 2000, Dirty Girls is a work of nonfiction portraiture about a group of rebellious thirteen - year - old «riot grrrls» who...

A work of nonfiction that dances along the edges of documentary and fiction, confession and characterization, Actress follows Brandy Burre, former featured player on The Wire, as she struggles to revive her acting career while playing the real - life roles of mother and homemaker.

As well as the components that make up a work of nonfiction: Thesis statement, evidence, diagrams, labels, research, data etc..

Several teachers also have assigned the book as a work of nonfiction to students in English classes, and have used it to prompt students» reflections on their education.

RUBIN: From experience, I knew that readers prefer a chronological sequence in a work of nonfiction.

I recently taught this memoir, which is as clear - eyed, beautiful and intense as one could hope for in a work of nonfiction.

In the course of doing research for a book like Astoria, which my agent has called «historical adventure,» I find myself reading bits and pieces of all sorts of works of nonfiction, as well as explorers» journals and memoirs, history, anthropology and many other eclectic subjects.

He is the author of a work of nonfiction, Things My Son Needs to Know About Life, and a number of novels including A Man Called Ove, his first novel.

Its young Indian protagonist, never named, is likely a stand - in for the author himself, who fell in love with the South American backwater while traveling the world and reporting on cricket — travels that produced an acclaimed work of nonfiction,...

Her award - winning books include novels, stories, screenplays, and works of nonfiction, including Monkey Grip, The First Stone, and Joe Cinque's Consolation, and in 2008 The Spare Room - her first work of fiction in fifteen years.

Kline has written six other novels — Orphan Train, Orphan Train Girl, The Way Life Should Be, Sweet Water, Bird in Hand, and Desire Lines — and written or edited five works of nonfiction.

It became for me an exploration of the potential for generating suspense in a work of nonfiction.

70 - year - old author Alan Bradley has written a memoir and collaborated on a work of nonfiction, but this brilliant mystery is his first novel.

However, Grisham's black and white approach to the real world which, unlike fiction, is always drawn in shades of gray, is the weakness of The Innocent Man when judged as a work of nonfiction.

He has published ninety novels; twenty - one short - story collections; two works of nonfiction; a memoir, Education of a Wandering Man; and a volume of poetry, Smoke From This Altar.

Simon Garfield is the author or editor of 17 works of nonfiction, united in content solely by the love of a compelling story.