nonfiction

At the local library, she skirted the kids’ section and went straight to the adult nonfiction shelves to read about terminal diseases in medical textbooks.

Franklin set the stage for thousands of subsequent writers who produced novels, memoirs and nonfiction books focusing on the working lives of Americans.

Helen Garner, the prolific Australian author of fiction and nonfiction, was searching for her next project when she began accompanying her grandson to sports practice.

Edited by Lee’s appointed biographer Casey Cep, it collects the author’s youthful short stories along with the surprisingly few nonfiction pieces she produced after becoming famous.

But the big loser has been the lover of nonfiction history, as the founding era became a subject conscripted into a turf war over important moral and factual issues.