Book description
The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction is an essential guide to writing
in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and
writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality. Part 1
explores the full range of genres and asks the question: what is
literary non-fiction? Part 2 includes tips by such bestselling literary
non-fiction writers as: Lisa Appignanesi, Rosemary Bailey, Gillian Beer,
Bidisha, Lizzie Collingham, William Dalrymple, Stevie Davies, Colin
Grant, Rahila Gupta, Philip Hoare, Siri Hustvedt, Alice Kessler-Harris,
Barry Lopez, Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Sara Maitland, Neil
McKenna, Caroline Moorehead, Susie Orbach, Jennifer Potter, Susan
Sellers, Dava Sobel, Diana Souhami, Dale Spender, Francis Spufford,
Daniel Swift, Colin Thubron, Natasha Walter, Sara Wheeler and Simon
Winchester. Part 3 offers practical advice - from planning and
researching to writing a proposal and finding an agent or a publisher
when your work is complete. Sally Cline, Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts and Advisory Fellow to the Royal Literary Fund, is an award
winning biographer and short fiction writer. Her 12 books include
biographies of Zelda Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett,
and Radclyffe Hall, (shortlisted for USA LAMBDA award).She is currently
writing a Brief Life of Dashiell Hammett. Former Writer in Residence at
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, she is co-Series Editorof
Bloomsbury's eight volume Arvon series onwriting. Midge Gillies has
written seven non-fiction books, including two highly acclaimed
biographies: Amy Johnson: Queen of Air about the record-breaking pilot,
and Marie Lloyd: The One and Only, a life of the Edwardian music hall
star. Her most recent book is The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives
of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War. She is a part-time
tutor at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education.
