American Creative Non-Fiction

Several essays survey the critical conversation regarding American creative non-fiction, an interesting collection of memoirs, autobiographies, travel and nature guides and essays and explore the genre’s cultural and historical contexts and offer close and comparative reading of key texts in the genre, including In Cold Blood, A Moveable Feast, The Big Sea, and Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources.