Literary Nonfiction

Overview

• Literary nonfiction is a fast-growing genre.• Readers enjoy the writer’s ability to be creative

with words and be informative at the same time. This gets the reader “hooked” into wanting to read more.

• What are some literary techniques an author would use in writing fiction?

• Literary nonfiction is found in …Journals, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies.

Biographies

• A story about someone that is not written by that person, but by someone else.

• In the library these are found under the call number 921.

• Why is it important to read biographies?

Autobiographies and Memoirs

• An autobiography is the story of a person’s life written by that person.

• A memoir is similar to an autobiography, but instead of telling about an entire life, it mainly focuses on particular memories of that person’s life.

• These books are found under the call number 921 in the library

• Memoir is the French word for “memory”.

Have you read

Anne’s diary?

Travel Journals

• The author takes you to a place through their writing.

• It’s not about what the author brings to the place, but what the place draws out of the author.

Your turn…

• You have been given a number that corresponds with a question.

• This question is located on one of the large chart papers on the library tables.

• Find the question that correlates with your number and supply an answer directly on the chart paper.

• Sign your name to your answer and then log off the computer.