nonfiction
- noun
- /ˌnɒnˈfɪkʃən/
- Kindergarten students prefer nonfiction materials to picture storybooks at a ratio of 9 to 1.
- fiction and nonfiction
- nonfiction books
- nonfiction biographies
I think this one is nonfiction yeah, true life murder.
- I think this one is nonfiction yeah, true life murder.
- Next we have our nonfiction book of the month.
- And it's not just for a long form nonfiction writer like me.
- Well, I think that you've made this very cool nonfiction podcast.
- She doesn't respect the boundary between nonfiction and fiction the way a lot of authors do.
- And that, to me, is how you make nonfiction rich.
- My house is stacked with so much nonfiction.
- The Anthropocene reviewed is classic John Green, but nonfiction.
- I'm also the author of best selling fiction and nonfiction.
- If you look up Rebecca Solnit, she is my all time favorite nonfiction writer.
- But it is one of my goals to read more nonfiction, if not the rest of this year next year.
- Are you always reading history and biography or are you reading new nonfiction books?
- My inclination is is to to take a nonfiction tack on explaining how to do all of this well.
- It it is a piece of nonfiction that's going to involve history and sports and politics.
- And and when I took a class with John McPhee from The New Yorker, it turned my head around because he's a nonfiction master.
Examples
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I would like to write nonfiction accounts of ordinary people.
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It's a serious work of nonfiction... entitled Down With Love.
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There it is, our first nonfiction, Between the World and Me.
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And these are just all of my nonfiction books that I will.
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Next we have our nonfiction book of the month.
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But it is one of my goals to read more nonfiction, if not the rest of this year next year.
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For nearly twenty years, Michael has made his living by writing nonfiction, promotion, and advertising copy.
Fiction book (1996) -
In terms of nonfiction, though, that goes to the book in first place, which is Know My Name by Chanel Miller.
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Publishers have been blurring the lines between straight nonfiction and fiction texts for years.
Academic text (2013) -
Her favorite summer reading list includes various nonfiction books about history and science.
Synonyms
An account of events that really happened
Writing about real events, people, or facts rather than made-up stories
Antonyms
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonfiction comes from the prefix non- meaning 'not' and the word fiction meaning 'a made-up story'. So nonfiction is 'not made up' — writing that tells about real people, real events, and true facts.