nonfiction novel
Americannoun
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His 1968 book "The Armies of the Night," described as a "nonfiction novel," won the Pulitzer Prize along with the National Book Award.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2022
But then again, that book might turn out to be The Executioner’s Song, the nonfiction novel that Joan Didion called “astonishing,” which helped reshape the debate over capital punishment in its time.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2021
The new reissue was compiled by stalwart imprint Light in the Attic, and arrives as a companion to Sweet’s loving biography of the band, “Hadley Lee Lightcap,” which he describes as a nonfiction novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2017
“In Cold Blood,” his sensational nonfiction novel about a murdered Kansas family, made him the best-known writer in America.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2016
With its intermingling of personal confession and public significance, it is a real masterpiece of the first wave of the nonfiction novel, as good, in its more sober way, as Mailer’s “Armies of the Night.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2016
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