nonfiction novel?

[Amy West]

On 3/6/14, 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> this is very old news.  from Wikipedia:
>
> The non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts real historical figures and actual events woven together with fictitious conversations and using the storytelling techniques of fiction.
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fiction_novel
>
> Capote's In Cold Blood (1966) is perhaps the most famous in the genre, but scarcely the first.
>
> arnold
Oh my. It used to make me crazier when I found freshmen using "novel"
for "book" in their Comp. I writings. Now it will become entrenched. . . .

---Amy West

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