English 219 (Creative Nonfiction) Research Guide: Creative Nonfiction books
A research guide which suggests resources for locating information about and examples of creative nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction anthologies
- Writing True: the art and craft of creative nonfictionCall Number: PE 1408 P43723 2014
The library collection includes an extensive collection of creative nonfiction books. The following are some notable anthologies:
- To Show and to Tell: the craft of literary nonfictionCall Number: PN 145 L67 2013
- The Best Creative Nonfiction (3 volumes)Call Number: PS 659.2 B48 2007
- In Fact: the best of creative nonfictionCall Number: PS 681 I5 2005
- The Art of Fact : a historical anthology of literary journalismCall Number: PN 6014 A76 1998
- Best American Essays of the CenturyCall Number: PS 688 B482 2000
- Art of the Personal Essay:an anthology from the classical era to the presentCall Number: PN 6141 A78 1994
Examples of creative nonfiction
The following are some well known examples of creative nonfiction.
- In Cold Blood byCall Number: HV 6533 K3 C3 1992
- Executioner’s Song byCall Number: PS 3525 A4152 E89 1993
- The Right Stuff byCall Number: TL 789.8 U5 W64 1983
- The Glass Castle byCall Number: HV 5132 W35 2005
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books byCall Number: PBK N
- Committed byCall Number: PBK G
- Night Trilogy byCall Number: PQ 2683 I32 Z467 1987
- Arctic Dreams byCall Number: QH 84.1 L67 2001
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings byCall Number: PS 3551 N464 Z77 1998
- Growing Up byCall Number: PS 3552 A4343 Z466 1984
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces byCall Number: BL 313 C28 1949
- Silent Spring byCall Number: QH 545 P4 C38 1987
- The Year of Magical Thinking byCall Number: PS 3554 I33 Z63 2005
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America byCall Number: HD 4918 E375 2001
- Ever Since Darwin byCall Number: QH 361 G65 1977
- A Moveable Feast byCall Number: PS 3515 E37 M69 1989
- Hiroshima byCall Number: D 767.25 H6 H4 1985
- Dust Tracks on a Road: an autobiography byCall Number: PS 3515 U789 Z465 1984
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood among Ghosts byCall Number: CT 275 K5764 A33
- Me Talk Pretty One Day byCall Number: PS 3569 E314 M4 2000
- Travels with Charley byCall Number: PS 3537 T3234 A6 2007
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression byCall Number: E 806 T45 1986
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas byCall Number: PN 4874 T444 A3 1998
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens byCall Number: PS 3573 A425 Z467 1983
- One Writer's Beginnings byCall Number: PS 3545 E6 Z475 1984
- A Room of One's Own byCall Number: PR 6045 O72 R6 1989
- Black Boy byCall Number: PS3545.R815 Z5 1969
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test byCall Number: HV 5825 W56 1968
- Eat, Pray, Love byCall Number: G 154.5 G55 A3 2006