The non-fiction novel is a literary genre that, broadly speaking, depicts non-fictional elements, such as real historical figures and actual events, woven...
15 KB (1,793 words) - 08:08, 15 November 2024
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than...
10 KB (1,143 words) - 21:58, 17 November 2024
"fiction" refers to written narratives in prose – often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses...
34 KB (3,741 words) - 22:30, 7 November 2024
Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, and sometimes just literature, are labels...
18 KB (1,996 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2024
intentionally ahistorical or speculative elements into a novel. Works of historical fiction are sometimes criticized for lack of authenticity because...
74 KB (8,948 words) - 03:35, 10 November 2024
The Minds of Billy Milligan (category Non-fiction novels)
The Minds of Billy Milligan is a 1981 non-fiction novel by Hugo Award-winning author Daniel Keyes. It tells the story of Billy Milligan, the first person...
3 KB (179 words) - 21:24, 13 November 2024
In Cold Blood (category Non-fiction novels about murders in the United States)
In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the...
40 KB (4,552 words) - 17:19, 15 November 2024
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The English word to describe such a work derives from...
98 KB (12,275 words) - 18:59, 17 November 2024
autobiographical novel, also known as a autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or autobiographical fiction novel, is a type of novel which uses...
10 KB (502 words) - 05:11, 25 September 2024
The encyclopedic novel is a genre of complex literary fiction which incorporates elements across a wide range of scientific, academic, and literary subjects...
12 KB (1,567 words) - 04:14, 8 November 2024
corruption in Vatican City. Malachi alleged the novel depicted real events in the form a non-fiction novel similar to the works of Taylor Caldwell, or Truman...
7 KB (878 words) - 14:29, 10 October 2024
Day After Tomorrow (2004), based on Whitley Strieber's speculative non-fiction novel The Coming Global Superstorm (1999), extreme weather events caused...
115 KB (16,045 words) - 00:58, 24 November 2024
The Boys in the Boat (category Non-fiction novels)
Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is a non-fiction novel written by Daniel James Brown and published on June 4, 2013. The Boys...
14 KB (1,429 words) - 01:39, 16 November 2024
Roman à clef (redirect from Novel with a key)
French for novel with a key, is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real...
4 KB (430 words) - 07:30, 23 November 2024
fiction can also be a plot element of non-literary works such as graphic novels and film. Action genre is a form of fiction whose subject matter is characterized...
8 KB (628 words) - 03:08, 26 November 2024
become tenuous or non-existent in much of science fiction. Horror fiction aims to frighten or disgust its readers. Although many horror novels feature supernatural...
41 KB (4,226 words) - 05:41, 17 November 2024
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (category Non-fiction novels about murders in the United States)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction novel by John Berendt. The book, Berendt's first, was published on January 10, 1994, and follows...
18 KB (2,148 words) - 22:24, 30 October 2024
Frankenstein, written in 1818, is often credited as the first true science fiction novel. Jules Verne and H.G. Wells are pivotal figures in the genre's development...
157 KB (13,354 words) - 01:06, 26 November 2024
List of writing genres (redirect from List of non-fictional genres)
fiction can refer to a flash narrative, short story, novella, and novel, the latter being the longest form of literary prose. Every work of fiction falls...
39 KB (3,609 words) - 20:16, 19 November 2024
Autofiction (redirect from Auto-fiction)
Maxwell Jr. Autobiografiction Autobiographical novel Biography in literature Fake memoir I-novel Non-fiction novel Roman à clef Plimpton, George (16 January...
7 KB (757 words) - 22:01, 20 November 2024
Creative nonfiction (redirect from Creative non-fiction)
factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other non-fiction, such as academic or technical writing or journalism, which are also...
18 KB (2,050 words) - 06:55, 25 October 2024
Men's adventure Military fiction Nautical fiction Outdoor literature Picaresque novel Robinsonade Subterranean fiction Spy fiction Swashbuckler Thriller...
8 KB (996 words) - 19:26, 24 November 2024
a list of science fiction novels, novel series and collections of linked short stories. It includes modern novels, as well as novels written before the...
68 KB (7,725 words) - 14:36, 25 November 2024
The Deadly Dozen: India's Most Notorious Serial Killers (category Non-fiction books about crime)
Most Notorious Serial Killers is a 2019 true-crime non-fiction novel by Anirban Bhattacharyya. The novel was launched by film director Anurag Kashyap in...
6 KB (545 words) - 21:23, 13 November 2024
hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for best translated novel and was nominated...
23 KB (2,487 words) - 09:18, 23 October 2024
Non-Stop is a 1958 science fiction novel by British writer Brian Aldiss. It is about problems that the inhabitants of a huge generation space ship face...
8 KB (870 words) - 12:05, 27 August 2024
Non-Fiction (French: Doubles vies) is a 2018 French comedy film directed by Olivier Assayas. It stars Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne...
10 KB (850 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2024
full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. A sister prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, was launched...
29 KB (3,047 words) - 20:41, 8 November 2024
epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended to cover novels that...
25 KB (3,064 words) - 09:04, 19 November 2024
A Very English Scandal (category 2016 non-fiction books)
crime non-fiction novel by John Preston. It was first published on 5 May 2016 by Viking Press and by Other Press in the United States. The novel details...
6 KB (464 words) - 04:22, 15 October 2024