Who are the best writers in the creative non-fiction genre?

Truman Capote invented the genre. E. B. White, Charles D'Amrosio and Charles Krauthammer are perhaps the country's best essayists. Anne Lamott is outstanding. read more

The cardinal rule is clear—and cannot be violated. This is the pledge the writer makes to the reader—the maxim we live by, the anchor of creative nonfiction: “You can’t make this stuff up!” The Fastest-Growing Genre. Creative nonfiction has become the most popular genre in the literary and publishing communities. read more

Creative Nonfiction is even, sometimes, thought of as another way of writing fiction, because of the way writing changes the way we know a subject. As a devotee of this form I like to define the genre in as broad a way as possible. read more