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WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION
WRITING
CREATIVE
NONFICTION
Fiction Techniques for Crafting Great Nonfiction
Theodore A. Rees Cheney
Ten Speed Press
Berkeley / Toronto
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Copyright © 1987, 1991, 2001 by Theodore A. Rees Cheney
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River-Horse: Across America by Boat
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Angela’s Ashes
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
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Cover and text design by Betsy Stromberg
Cover photograph by Theodore A. Rees Cheney
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cheney, Theodore A. Rees (Theodore Albert Rees), 1928–
Writing creative nonfiction: fiction techniques for crafting great
nonfiction / Theodore A. Rees Cheney.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-58008-229-7
1. Reportage literature—Technique. 2. Nonfiction novel—Technique.
3. Journalism—Authorship. 4. Narration (Rhetoric) 5. Creative writing. I. Title.
PN3377.5.R45 C46 2001
808’.02—dc21
2001003095
First printing, 2001
Printed in Canada
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