NonFiction Bibliography

Technique:
Creative Nonfiction and Writing a Book That Makes a Difference, Philip Gerard
Writing Personal Essays: How to Shape Your Life Experiences for the Page, Bender
Writing the Memoir, Judith Barrington
Writing From Personal Experience, Nancy Davidoff Kelton
Writing as a Road to Self- Discovery, Barry Lane
Word Painting, Rebecca McClanahan
Writing Dramatic Nonfiction, William Noble
Painted Paragraphs, Donald Newlove
First Paragraphs, Donald Newlove
Writing Articles from the Heart, Marjorie Holmes

How It’s Done:
The Best American Essays, compiled yearly
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology From the Classical Era to the Present, Philip Lopate, editor
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
Memoirs, Pablo Neruda
Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
Essays of E.B. White, E.B. White
The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard
The Liars Club, Mary Karr
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Naked or Me Talk Pretty Someday, David Saderis
Sleeping in the Starlight Motel, Bailey White
On Keeping a Notebook, Joan Didion
Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton

Resources & Inspiration:
Synonym Finder, J. I. Rodale
Grammatically Correct, Anne Stilman
Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale
The Forest for the Trees, Betsy Lerner
Escaping Into the Open, Elizabeth Berg
Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Zen and the Writing Life, Peter Mathiessen
If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland
How to Write Attention- Grabbing Query & Cover Letters, John Wood
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael J. Gelb
Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript, Neff, Prues & the editors of Writer’s Market
Living the Writer’s Life, Eric Maisel, Ph.D.
Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury