Nonfiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimat...
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Books In This Genre:
- Making music modern : New York in the 1920s ,
- My father ,
- Essential cataloguing ,
- In Praise of Slow ,
- Applied Cryptography ,
- Networks of Innovation ,
- What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier ,
- Masters of the Wired World: cyberspace speaks out ,
- Empire ,
- Naked conversations
TV programs of this genre:
- Biography ,
- Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories ,
- Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse ,
- Live It Up! ,
- The Screen Savers ,
- The Joy of Painting ,
- Celebrities Uncensored ,
- Call for Help ,
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! ,
- Porthole TV
Awards in this discipline:
- National Book Award for Arts and Letters ,
- National Book Award for The Sciences ,
- National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion ,
- National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration ,
- National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion ,
- National Book Award for Science ,
- National Book Award for Nonfiction ,
- SFRA Pioneer Award ,
- Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime ,
- Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
Also known as:
- Nonfiction
