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WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION

WRITING

CREATIVE

NONFICTION

Fiction Techniques for Crafting Great Nonfiction

Theodore A. Rees Cheney

Ten Speed Press

Berkeley / Toronto

excerpts for the purpose of review, without written permission of the publisher.

Excerpt from River-Horse: Across America by Boat by William Least Heat-Moon:

Excerpts from Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt: Reprinted with the permission of

Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt.

Excerpt from “Twynam of Wimbledon” from A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

Straus and Giroux, LLC.

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Distributed in Australia by Simon and Schuster Australia, in Canada by Ten Speed Press

Canada, in New Zealand by Southern Publishers Group, in South Africa by Real Books,

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Cover and text design by Betsy Stromberg

Cover photograph by Theodore A. Rees Cheney

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cheney, Theodore A. Rees (Theodore Albert Rees), 1928–

Writing creative nonfiction: fiction techniques for crafting great

nonfiction / Theodore A. Rees Cheney.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-58008-229-7

1. Reportage literature—Technique. 2. Nonfiction novel—Technique.

3. Journalism—Authorship. 4. Narration (Rhetoric) 5. Creative writing. I. Title.

PN3377.5.R45 C46 2001

808’.02—dc21

2001003095

First printing, 2001

Printed in Canada

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