{"product_id":"telling-true-stories-a-nonfiction-writers-guide-from-the-nieman-foundation-at-harvard-university-paperback","title":"Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWendy Call\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America's most respected journalists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe country's most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard's Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. \u003ci\u003eTelling True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e presents their best advice--covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- \u003cb\u003eTom Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e on the emotional core of the story\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eGay Talese\u003c\/b\u003e on writing about private lives\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eMalcolm Gladwell\u003c\/b\u003e on the limits of profiles\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eNora Ephron\u003c\/b\u003e on narrative writing and screenwriters\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eAlma Guillermoprieto\u003c\/b\u003e on telling the story and telling the truth\u003cbr\u003e- Dozens of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists from the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and more . . .\u003cp\u003eThe essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, \u003ci\u003eTelling True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e was writer-in-residence in the American Studies Program at Smith College (1980-1990), writer-in-residence and a professor of journalism at Boston University (1990-2001), and writer-in-residence and founding director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University (2001-2007). He's written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other periodicals. He's co-author of two leading textbook\/readers on narrative nonfiction: \u003ci\u003eTelling True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e. He's written four additional books: \u003ci\u003eMother Walter and the Pig Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThree Farms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInvasive Procedures\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTravels with a Hungry Bear\u003c\/i\u003e. He's currently at work on a book about writing narrative nonfiction. His website is www.tellingtruestories.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Call\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eNo Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2011 Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction. She co-edited \u003ci\u003eTelling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide\u003c\/i\u003e. Wendy has served as Writer in Residence at 20 institutions, five national parks, four universities, a public hospital, and a historical archive. She writes and edits nonfiction, translates Mexican poetry and short fiction, and works as a teacher at Richard Hugo House and Goddard College. Before turning to full-time word-working in 2000, she devoted a decade to work for social change organizations in Boston and Seattle. The daughter of a middle-school math teacher and a career Navy officer from Michigan, Wendy grew up on and around military bases in Florida, Pennsylvania, southern California, and southern Maryland. 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