Wyeth People is the story of one writer’s search for the meaning of artistic creativity, approached from personal contact with the work of one of the world’s great artists, Andrew Wyeth.
Art | Individual Artists | General · Biography, Artists and Architects · Literature · Creative Nonfiction
Loving Mountains, Loving Men
Memoirs of a Gay Appalachian
By Jeff Mann
Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of greater freedom. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then returned, who insists on claiming and celebrating both regional and sexual identities.
Memoir, LGBT · Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places · Gender Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Appalachia · Creative Nonfiction
The Golden Dream
Seekers of El Dorado
By Robert Silverberg
In this history of quest and adventure, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado, the City of Gold.
History | Expeditions & Discoveries · 16th century · Political Science | Imperialism · Creative Nonfiction
The Longest Voyage
Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery
By Robert Silverberg
Capturing the total context of political climate and historical change that made the Age of Discovery one of excitement and drama, Silverberg brings a motley crew of early ocean explorers vividly to life.
History | Expeditions & Discoveries · 16th century · Creative Nonfiction · History | Maritime History & Piracy
The Realm of Prester John
By Robert Silverberg
In this genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg’s romantic and fabulous tale explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.
Social Science | Folklore & Mythology · Historical Biography · Creative Nonfiction
Spirituality and the Writer
A Personal Inquiry
By Thomas Larson
In a book-length essay on the evolving, improvisatory world of spiritual literature, Thomas Larson surveys authors old and new who have shaped religious autobiography and spiritual memoir. He shows just how the writer’s craft must prevail to capture the fleeting and personal truths of the spirit in an important addition to nonfiction craft studies.
Creative Writing · Spirituality · Memoir · Essays · Creative Nonfiction · Trade Nonfiction
Beep
Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
By David Wanczyk
In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability.
Baseball · Disability Studies · Creative Nonfiction · Trade Nonfiction · Sports & Recreation | Essays
Beep
Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
By David Wanczyk
In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability.
Baseball · Disability Studies · Creative Nonfiction · Trade Nonfiction · Sports & Recreation | Essays
Counting Down
A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond
By Deborah Gold
When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family. They fell in love with Michael (a toddler when he came to them), yet they had to reckon with the knowledge that he could leave their lives at any time.In Counting Down, Gold tells the story of forging a family within a confounding system.
Adoption and Fostering · Memoir · Creative Nonfiction · Appalachia · Trade Nonfiction
Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean
Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia
Edited by Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray
In essays that take wide-ranging forms—ideal for creative nonfiction classes—established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia take on the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture. They write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken.
American Literature · Appalachia · Literature · Creative Nonfiction
The Novel of the Future
By Anaïs Nin
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Introduction by Deirdre Bair
In The Novel of the Future, Anaïs Nin explores the act of creation—in film, art, and dance as well as literature—to chart a new direction for the young artist struggling against what she perceived as the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy afflicting much of mid-twentieth-century fiction.
Literary Criticism · American Literature · Anaïs Nin · Creative Nonfiction · Literature
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
By Sarah Beth Childers
In a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.
Memoir · Creative Nonfiction · Appalachia · United States · North America · Americas · Literature · Social Science | Regional Studies · Ohio and Regional
Dragging Wyatt Earp
A Personal History of Dodge City
By Robert Rebein
In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown’s Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard.Along
Memoir · American Literature · Americas · North America · United States · Creative Nonfiction · Literature
Power in the Blood
A Family Narrative
By Linda Tate
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives.
Memoir · Women Authors · Appalachia · Creative Nonfiction · Ohio and Regional
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Reading and Writing Personal Narrative
By Thomas Larson
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true.In
Creative Writing · Essays · Trade Nonfiction · Creative Nonfiction
Expecting Teryk
An Exceptional Path to Parenthood
By Dawn Prince-Hughes
The period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society would strip of its magic.
Memoir · Women’s Studies · Gender Studies · Creative Nonfiction
Body Story
By Julia K. De Pree
Something other than a memoir of a life well lived, Body Story conveys Julia K. De Pree’s troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health.For De Pree, between being a girl and being a woman, there was starvation. Body Story is her intimate account of girlhood, virginity, anorexia, and motherhood. De Pree’s prose is spare and unguarded, revealing in vivid flashbacks and poignant vignettes the sources of her inner pain.In
Memoir · Women’s Studies · Gender Studies · Creative Nonfiction
