Example sentences for: nonfiction

How can you use “nonfiction” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We are in a great age of nonfiction narrative writing.

  • I brought the matter up with Jack Miles, whose book, God: A Biography , won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

  • Journalist David Halberstam and former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who are characters in Shining Lie , complain that the Vietnam film distorts the nonfiction book it is based on.

  • Last week, the New York Times accused Chase-Riboud herself of pinching several paragraphs from a nonfiction work for her 1986 book, Valide: A Novel of the Harem . Chase-Riboud acknowledged her debt to the previously published work, but claimed that she had done nothing wrong because the book was a "reference" and her novel was intended to be a "seamless narrative using both documents and fiction."

  • Klepp, Entertainment Weekly ). Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt calls the report a "nonfiction novel" in the New York Times and finds its closest literary antecedent in the writings of medieval inquisitors, in particular Kramer and Sprengerr's Malleus Maleficarum . Adam Gopnik writes in The New Yorker that Americans overwhelmingly side with Clinton because "a scapegrace hero is always more appealing than a moralizing narrator."


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