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Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

By Mark Kramer (Editor), Wendy Call (Editor)

ISBN: 9780452287556
UPC: 884389430173
ASIN: B00A2MV1TK
ASIN: B000SEH1KK

Published: 2007

Number of Pages: 317

Edition: 1st

Binding: Paperback


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Product Type: Book

Publisher: Plume

Description: Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including:• Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story• Gay Talese on writing about private lives• Malcolm Gladwell on the limits of profiles• Nora Ephron on narrative writing and screenwriters• Alma Guillermoprieto on telling the story and telling the truth• Dozens of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists from the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more . . .The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.


Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2006026809
   - LC control Number: 2006026809

International Standard Book Number: 04522875530452287553 : PAP97804522875569780452287556 : PAP
   - Terms of availability: $15.00

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: PN4781
   - Item number: .T45 2007

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 070.4/3

Title Statement
   - Title: Telling true stories :
   - Remainder of title: a nonfiction writers' guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Plume,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2007
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2007.

Projected Publication Date: 0702

Physical Description
   - Extent: xvii, 317 p. ;
   - Dimensions: 20 cm.
   - Dimensions: 21 cm
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289-296] and index.

Formatted Contents Note: Invitation to narrative: Stories matter / J. Banaszynski; Narrative idea / D. Halberstam -- Finding, researching, and reporting topics:Finding good topics, a writer's questions / L. DeGregory; Interviewing, accelerated intimacy / I. Wilkerson; Not always being there / L. Kiernan; From story idea to published story / C. Gorney -- Name your subgenre: Ladder of abstraction / R.P. Clark; Personal essay and the first-person character / P. Lopate; Public radio, community storytelling / J. Allison -- Constructing a structure: What narrative writers can learn from screenwriters / N. Ephron; Hearing our subjects' voices, keeping it real and true / D. Dickerson; Weaving story and idea / N. LeMann -- Building quality into the work: Characters / J. Franklin; Setting the scene / M. Kramer; Telling the story, telling the truth / A. Guillermoprieto -- Ethics: Line between fact and fiction / R.P. Clark; Securing consent / T. Kidder; Ethics of attribution / R.P. Clark -- Editing: On style / E. Hiestand; Care and feeding of editors and writers / J. Banaszynski -- Narrative in the news organization: Beginning in narrative / W. Harrington; Narrative as a daily habit / L. DeGregory; Team storytelling / L. Kiernan -- Building a career in magazines and books: Making it as a freelancer / J. Collins; What makes a good book? / H. Atwan; Passion for writing / S. Orlean -- Web sites and Internet resources.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Journalism
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Reporters and reporting
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Reporters and reporting.
   - General subdivision: Authorship
   - General subdivision: Authorship.

Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Call, Wendy
   - Personal name: Kramer, Mark
   - Dates associated with a name: 1944-
   - Dates associated with a name: 1968-
   - Fuller form of name: (Mark William),
   - Fuller form of name: (Wendy Louise),

Added Entry - Corporate Name
   - Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Harvard University.
   - Subordinate unit: Nieman Foundation for Journalism
   - Subordinate unit: Nieman Foundation for Journalism.


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