 Photo by Susan Root AWARD GIVEN The essay "A Double Life", published in Writing on the Edge (Volume 16, Number 2, Spring 2006) was awarded the 2006 Donald M. Murray Prize for the Best Creative Nonfiction on the subject of writing. ESSAYS ONLINE To sample Bob's essays try one or both of these online publications: "Place" at the nonfiction journal Brevity "To Think of Time" at River Review/ |
WorksThe Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction
A "poetics" of nonfiction offering a lively exploration of its contemporary elements and suggesting imaginative approaches to writing it. Each chapter discusses a different aspect of creative nonfiction by examining outstanding examples from the field and concludes with a section of "Notes for Nonfictionists" recommending ways writers can put these ideas into practice in their own nonfiction. Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place
The essays, memoirs, and travel narratives in this anthology, set in widely divergent locales by a range of outstanding writers, are bound together by the central element of the nonfiction of place—an individual writer’s sensibility as it responds to the impact of setting, the awareness that place alters perceptions and influences insight. Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale
The task of editing and annotating a nineteen-century diary seemed straightforward at first, but as he assembled scattered fragments of lost history and immersed himself in background research, Root became enmeshed in unexpected ways. Part memoir, part meditation about biography, this is the absorbing story of recovering a hidden past. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, 4th Edition
The Fourth Genre is the first teaching anthology to draw on the common ground both of the practicing writer and the practical scholar. It offers the most thorough, comprehensive, and teachable introduction to the cutting-edge and still evolving genre widely known as “creative nonfiction”. E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist
A study of E. B. White's nonfiction career, tracing its course from his early days as a humorist and paragrapher through his development as a columnist and his ultimate role as an editorial commentator and essayist and concentrating on manuscript evidence of and contexts for composing classic, memorable nonfiction. ALSO BY ROBERT ROOT Books: Critical Essays on E. B. White (editor) Diaries of an Isle Royale Fisherman by Elling Seglem (editor w/ The Island Within Us: Isle Royale Artists-in-Residence 1991-1998 (editor w/ The Rhetorics of Popular Culture: Advertising, Advocacy, Entertainment Thomas Southerne Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching (editor w/ “’Time By Moments Steals Away’”: The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass (editor) Wordsmithery: A Guide to Working at Writing Working at Writing: Columnists and Critics Composing Recent Creative Nonfiction: “Limited Sight Distance,” Clackamas Literary Review X (2006): 16-18 “The Pattern of Life Indelible,” Ecotone: Reimagining Place 1:2 (Summer/ “The Everlastingly Great Look of the Sky,” The Concord Saunterer 12/ “Here Is New York,” divide Issue 2 (2004): 54-57 “The View from Bois Blanc,” Heartlands 1 (Fall 2003): 19-22 “Knowing Where You’ve Been,” Ascent 27:3 (Spring 2003): 45-55 “Shore Lines,” Under the Sun, 8:1 (Summer 2003): 194-206. “Words in the Wind,” Rivendell Issue 2 (Spring 2004): 227-231. Recent Articles: “A Double Life,” Writing on the Edge 16:2 (Spring 2006): 69-81. “Roundtable: Travel in Nonfiction,” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 7:2 (Fall 2005): 77-102. “Captioning and Capturing the Past,” Statement 42:1 (Fall 2005): 9-15. “Variations on a Theme of Putting Nonfiction in Its Place,” Pedagogy 4:2 (Sp 2004) 289-295. “The Experimental Art,” JAEPL: Journal of the Assembly on Expanded Perspectives in Learning 9 (Winter 2003-2004): 12-19. “Naming Nonfiction (a polyptych),” College English 65:3 (January 2003): 242-256. “Roundtable: Place in Nonfiction,” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 4:2 (Fall 2002): 177-202. |
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