nonfiction novel?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/5/2014 09:30 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>...
>Capote's In Cold Blood (1966) is perhaps the most famous in the
>genre, but scarcely the first.
>
>arnold

Arnold, what would you say *is* the first nonfiction novel?  That is,
ignoring The Iliad and restricting oneself to works in English.

Joel

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org