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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 being grounded in imagination. [1] Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information. However, some non-fiction ranges into more ...
The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library. The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900. The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays. A separate list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year.
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This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. Non-fiction books by country (54 C) Non-fiction books by date (7 C) Non-fiction books by discipline (12 C, 1 P) Non-fiction books by language (1 C) Non-fiction books by topic (101 C) Non-fiction books by type (8 C)
Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. [2] The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
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- Jon Krakauer
- January 13, 1996
- Villard
Biographical novel. The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictional genre, the novel. These reimagined biographies are sometimes called semi ...
Aug 3, 2021 · The 21 most captivating biographies of all time. Written by Katherine Fiorillo. Aug 3, 2021, 2:48 PM PDT. The bets biographies include books about Malcolm X, Frida Kahlo, Steve Jobs, Alexander ...
The Diary of a Young Girl. The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus ...
