nonfiction novel

American  

noun

1. a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.

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Example Sentences

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

Two years later, her book “Picture,” a behind-the-scenes exploration of filmmaking, became known as perhaps the first nonfiction novel and a model for later literary works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer and other writers.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2017

But possibly nothing, for me, topped an incredible nonfiction novel written by Catherine Leahy Scott, Inspector General of New York State, along with a staff of twenty-nine investigators.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2016