Posts Tagged ‘creative nonfiction’

Writing about your life experiences and publishing them for the whole world to read is intimidating for some and simply unthinkable for others. So daunting a task it deters countless aspiring biographers from venturing down Memoir Lane all together.

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Born on June 17, 1914, John Hersey is a Pulitzer Prize winning author who is considered one of the first practitioners of “New Journalism” or what we now consider Creative Nonfiction. Hersey’s account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel under the aegis of New York University’s journalism department.

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Are your emotions taking over? Take some time to sort your feeling out on paper and gain perspective.

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