Elements of Narrative Nonfiction by Peter Rubie

Elements of Narrative Nonfiction by Peter Rubie

Name some of the huge bestselling books over the years--In Cold Blood; All the President's Men; The Perfect Storm; Black Hawk Down; Longitude; Jarhead--and they all have one thing in common; they all read like novels. Author and agent Peter Rubie shows the reader how to join journalistic research with riveting, character-driven prose to create narrative nonfiction. This is the only book to focus on writing and marketing the narrative nonfiction novel. (An earlier version of this book was published under the title Telling the Story: How to Write and Sell Narrative Nonfiction. This version has been extensively reworked.)

Rubie, Peter: -

Former BBC Radio and Fleet Street journalist Peter Rubie has been an editor and then a literary agent since 1986. He has also been a member of the New York University publishing faculty, where for 10 years he taught the only university-level course in the country on how to become a literary agent. For several years he was also the director of the book publishing section of the NYU Summer Publishing Institute.

Before that, in the U.K., he worked on Fleet Street before becoming one of the youngest news editors for BBC Radio News, and at 23, also worked for the fledgling BBC Radio London as a deputy news editor.

In the U.S. he was the editor-in-chief of a Manhattan local newspaper, and later a regular reviewer for the international trade magazine Publishers Weekly. A member of the Association of Authors Representative (AAR), he regularly lectures and writes on publishing and the craft of writing.

In addition to his work with FinePrint, he is the publisher of a small press, Lincoln Square Books, and is himself a published author of both fiction and nonfiction. What many people do not know about Peter is that he is also an active professional jazz musician, and writes a regular blog column on AllAboutJazz.com, called The Jazz Life. On any given week, he can be heard late in the evening and weekends playing guitar around jazz venues in New York City -- and occasionally in London and elsewhere.

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ISBN 13	9781884956911
ISBN 10	1884956912
Title	Elements of Narrative Nonfiction
Author	Peter Rubie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quill Driver Books, U.S.
Year published	2009-01-01
Number of pages	288
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