Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction - By Jack Hart

Instructive and essential, reading Storycraft is like finding the secret set of blueprints to the writer’s craft. Better still, it is engaging, funny, and wise—wonderful to read and wonderful to learn from.” - Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief “When I think back on what I have learned about storytelling over the last 30 years, the trail of memory leads back time and again to Jack Hart. No one has done more to inspire better narrative writing in America.” - Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools and The Glamour of Grammar "Jack Hart was hands-down the best narrative editor ever to work in newspapers.”  - Jon Franklin, author of Writing for Story and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Across the entire media landscape from newspapers and magazines, books and documentary film, to radio, television, and new digital forms narrative nonfiction has always been a part of literature. But what creates a compelling true story? Author Jack Hart once said It captures reality with the sophistic