nonfiction novel?

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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
>
And do (covertly) falsified memoirs count?

LH

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