Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind has been called the “Godfather behind creative nonfiction” by Vanity Fair. He founded Creative Nonfiction magazine in 1994 and is the editor or author of more than thirty books. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

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How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

January 23, 2024 By Lee Gutkind

The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre

Lee Gutkind on the Birth and Surprising History of a Different Type of Narrative Form

December 13, 2021 By Lee Gutkind

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