Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University in Bloomington, MN

Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.
The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism.
Telling True Stories
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:
•
Tom Wolfe
on the emotional core of the story
Gay Talese
on writing about private lives
Malcolm Gladwell
on the limits of profiles
Nora Ephron
on narrative writing and screenwriters
Alma Guillermoprieto
on telling the story and telling the truth
• Dozens of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists from the
Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post
and more . . .
The 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,
will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.