Fiction authors

been reading for entertainment. Very rarely are questions such as these answered by the authors of the work, meaning that, if a reader is to have an answer, they have to create one themselves. This is why fan fiction was created, and why it continues to hold popularity among fans of the works it is based upon. Fan fiction, while being an entertaining and engaging form of

History Through Fiction" and "There is Danger in Fictionalizing History" is a quote by Valerie Tripp who explains, "fiction can make history matter- make it irresistible- to young readers (teachinghistory.org website 1, 8). In "There is Value in Teaching History Through Fiction," the author uses Tripp's evidence to show the readers that there is value is teaching history through fiction. The author is showing evidence that other people believe the same thing about history and fiction, including Valerie

John Green, New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, is one of the most influential fiction writers of the modern day. Green received the Printz Award in 2006 for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska and was recognized by Time magazine in 2014 as one of The 100 Most Influential People In The World. Green’s works appeal mainly to young adult readers, as most of them feature teenage romance. Many readers of Green’s works relate to the characters and the storyline

the Eyes of a Child Norton explained what historical fiction means. He explained the values, elements, and how history fiction brings the past to alive. All our history and others’ are written in stories to remind and inform children about their history and others’. Historical fictions are stories about famous and unknown people, past data, accomplishments, and about wars (Norton 408). The chapter starts with the values of historical fiction for children. The first value is just like all the genres

Dean Myers is a historical fiction novel that retells the memories of Robin Perry’s experience in Iraqi civil war. He was in a civil affairs unit, which is dedicated to protecting by standers in the war. Robin encounters various setbacks that try to slow down the progress of his unit such as the death of his close friend Jonsey. Walter Dean Myers portrayed his knowledge of the setting, aspects from the past, and made the plot very believable in the historical fiction novel Sunrise Over Fallujah

In John Barth's short story “Lost in the Funhouse” he uses meta-fiction to make a rather simple plot into a complex narrative. Barth uses meta fiction in his own unique way. In this short story the narration overlaps three times. The perspective of the protagonist (young Ambrose), the author, and the narrator who gives the majority of the meta-fictional elements. This story differs drastically from comedic uses of metafiction that are more common in everyday media. Instead of the protagonist, or

composing a piece of nonfiction, the author sometime run into a dilemma that could make their work a masterpiece or create a scandal that could ruin their career. Controversies run deep in the creative nonfiction genre because of the way author uses different aspects of fiction to enhance their writing. As we were going up, we were told that lying is not a good thing to do. We were told that lying will always get you in trouble but is that always true. Some author create lies in their story because

According to her, Munro does not provide her readers with a coherent narrative about her life. Instead of his, the author restricts her scope to a selected life-span and events that she frequently rewrites, standing in the tradition of feminist new biography (see Howell 80f). For this reason, Howell coins some of Munro´s short story as “non-fiction” (81), “memoir” (85) or “literary non-fiction” (93), Howell does not explain what she exactly means by these terms. Even though she admits that Munro´s life-writing

Flannery O’Connor’s “The Nature and Aim of Fiction,” and Nabokov’s “Good Readers and Good Writers,” both authors discuss the element of truth in their essays on fiction, however in O’Connor’s blueprint to writing fiction she states that the writer should dive into the truth in their stories with fiction. This is a contrast to Nabokov’s ideology, because he says that “Every great writer is a great deceiver, but so is that arch-cheat Nature. Nature always deceives,” (Nabokov). This contrast in their

When weighing the huge debate of fiction versus non-fiction, one must take into account the element of imagination that one is able to use when writing a novel regarding events that have occurred in the past. Shiloh: A Novel, written by Shelby Foote, can use several different components related to fiction in order to help the reader be able to further comprehend what happened at the Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War without having to explain the actual events by using real historical