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72 relations: A Civil Action, Alex Haley, Argentina, Autobiography, Beryl Bainbridge, Biography, Coup d'état, Creative nonfiction, Dispatches (book), Docudrama, Docufiction, Dominican Republic, Educational entertainment, Essay, Fiction, First-person narrative, George Plimpton, Gonzo journalism, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Henry Thrale, Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, Hester Thrale, Historical fiction, History, Homer Hickam, Hunter S. Thompson, I Married Wyatt Earp, In Cold Blood, In the Time of the Butterflies, Infotainment, Inga Clendinnen, Joan Didion, John Berendt, John Clum, Josephine Earp, Juan José Valle, Juan Perón, Julia Alvarez, Kate Grenville, List of genres, Literary forgery, Literary genre, Memoir, Michael Herr, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Mirabal sisters, Narration, New Journalism, Non-fiction, Norman Mailer, ..., October Sky (novel), Operación Masacre, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Peronism, Perry Edward Smith, Portmanteau, Revolución Libertadora, Richard Hickock, Rodolfo Walsh, Roman à clef, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Samuel Johnson, State-sponsored terrorism, The Armies of the Night, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Executioner's Song, The Secret River, The Tombstone Epitaph, Tom Wolfe, True crime, Truman Capote, Wyatt Earp. Expand index (22 more) »
A Civil Action
A Civil Action is a non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s.
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Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Autobiography
An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.
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Beryl Bainbridge
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool.
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Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.
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Coup d'état
A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.
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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.
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Dispatches (book)
Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine.
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Docudrama
A docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.
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Docufiction
Docufiction (or docu-fiction), often confused with docudrama, is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.
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Educational entertainment
Educational entertainment (also referred to by the portmanteau neologism edutainment) is media designed to educate through entertainment.
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Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
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Fiction
Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.
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First-person narrative
A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a narrator relays events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first person protagonist (or other focal character), first person re-teller, first person witness, or first person peripheral (also called a peripheral narrator).
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George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman.
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Gonzo journalism
Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.
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Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs is a book written by Hunter S. Thompson, first published in 1966 by Random House.
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Henry Thrale
Henry Thrale (1724/1730?–4 April 1781) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1780.
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Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith
Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, born Hester Maria Thrale (17 September 1764 – 31 March 1857), was a British literary correspondent and intellectual.
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Hester Thrale
Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage becoming Hester Lynch Piozzi, 27 January 1741 – 2 May 1821) was a Welsh-born diarist, author, and patron of the arts.
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Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Homer Hickam
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts.
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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.
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I Married Wyatt Earp
The 1976 book I Married Wyatt Earp was published as a memoir of his widow Josephine Earp, but after 23 years as a best-selling non-fiction book, was described as a fraud, creative exercise, and a hoax.
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies is a historical novel by Julia Alvarez, relating an account of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
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Infotainment
Infotainment (a portmanteau of information and entertainment), also called soft news, is a type of media, usually television, that provides a combination of information and entertainment.
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Inga Clendinnen
Inga Vivienne Clendinnen, (17 August 1934 – 8 September 2016) was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic.
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American journalist and writer of novels, screenplays, and autobiographical works.
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John Berendt
John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
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John Clum
John Philip Clum (September 1, 1851 - May 2, 1932) was an Indian agent for the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in the Arizona Territory.
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Josephine Earp
Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1860 – December 19, 1944) was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler.
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Juan José Valle
Juan José Valle (1896 – June 12, 1956) was an Argentine general who headed a rebellion in 1956 against General Aramburu's dictatorship.
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Juan Perón
Juan Domingo Perón (8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine army lieutenant general and politician.
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Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.
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Kate Grenville
Catherine Elizabeth Grenville (born 14 October 1950) is an Australian author.
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List of genres
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment, excluding genres in the visual arts.
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Literary forgery
Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents untrue or imaginary information.
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Literary genre
A literary genre is a category of literary composition.
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Memoir
A memoir (US: /ˈmemwɑːr/; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life.
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Michael Herr
Michael David Herrhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/michael-herr-who-wrote-powerfully-about-vietnam-in-dispatches-dies-at-76/2016/06/24/ac9c0e58-3a2e-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is non-fiction work by John Berendt.
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Mirabal sisters
The Mirabal sisters (Las Hermanas Mirabal) were four sisters in the Dominican Republic, known commonly as Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Dedé, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (El Jefe) and were involved in clandestine activities against his regime.
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Narration
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.
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New Journalism
New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, which uses literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction or nonfiction is content (sometimes, in the form of a story) whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented.
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Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.
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October Sky (novel)
October Sky (the title on the mass market movie tie-in version of the best-selling Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of four, by Homer Hickam Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.
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Operación Masacre
Operación Masacre ("Operation Massacre") is a nonfiction novel of investigative journalism, written by noted Argentine journalist and author Rodolfo Walsh.
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Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Silveti (May 21, 1903 – June 1, 1970) was an Argentine Army general.
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Peronism
Peronism (peronismo) or Justicialism (justicialismo) is an Argentine political movement based on the political ideology and legacy of former President Juan Domingo Perón and his second wife Eva Perón.
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Perry Edward Smith
Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.
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Portmanteau
A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.
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Revolución Libertadora
Revolución Libertadora (The Liberating Revolution) was a military and civilian uprising that ended the second presidential term of Juan Perón in Argentina, on 16 September 1955.
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Richard Hickock
Richard Eugene "Dick" Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.
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Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Jorge Walsh (January 9, 1927 – March 25, 1977) was an Argentine writer and journalist of Irish descent, considered the founder of investigative journalism.
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Roman à clef
Roman à clef (anglicised as), French for novel with a key, is a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction.
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.
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State-sponsored terrorism
State-sponsored terrorism is government support of violent non-state actors engaged in terrorism.
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The Armies of the Night
The Armies of the Night is a nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and published by New American Library in 1968.
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe that was published in 1968.
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The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song (1979) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore for murder by the state of Utah.
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The Secret River
The Secret River, written by Kate Grenville in 2005, is a historical novel about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft.
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The Tombstone Epitaph
The Tombstone Epitaph is a Tombstone, Arizona-based monthly publication that serves as a window in the history and culture of the Old West.
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Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
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True crime
True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.
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Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capotehttp://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547#early-life (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American Old West gambler, a deputy sheriff in Pima County, and deputy town marshal in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, who took part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys.
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