INTRODUCTION

TO
CREATIVE NONFICTION
 Creative nonfiction (also known as literary
nonfiction or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of 
writing that uses literary styles and techniques
to create factually accurate narratives.
 Creative nonfiction contrasts with other 
nonfiction, such as academic or 
technical writing or journalism, which is also
rooted in accurate fact, but is not written to
entertain based on writing style or florid prose.
 For a text to be considered creative nonfiction,
it must be factually accurate, and written with
attention to literary style and technique.

 "Ultimately, the primary goal of the creative

nonfiction writer is to communicate
information, just like a reporter, but to shape it
in a way that reads like fiction."
 Forms within this genre include: 
 biography, autobiography, memoir, diary,
travel writing, food writing, literary journalism
, chronicle, personal essays and other
hybridized essays. 

 According to Vivian Gornick, "A MEMOIR is a

tale taken from life—that is, from actual, not
imagined, occurrences—related by a first-
person narrator who is undeniably the writer.