Writing a Nonfiction Book

This is a course for people who are embarked on a book-length work of nonfiction: biographers, memoirists, historians, journalists, science writers, and others who are writing for a non-specialist audience.

Students should have a clearly formulated book idea or, ideally, be already working on a project.

In the course we talk about voice, structure, audience, and how to pitch projects to agents and publishers.

We also read samples from a wide variety of nonfiction books.