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# Lee Gutkind

Writer - Speaker - Innovator

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://leegutkind.com/blog/)
- [Combat stigma. Write your story.](https://leegutkind.com/combatting-stigma-by-writing-your-story/) - Think about how difficult it was for Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain to have lived two lives –public figures with amazingly successful careers, while each day confronting the awesome and often unimaginable challenges of living with and concealing mental illness. Could they have told their stories, shared their feelings of isolation and pain—outed themselves, so
- [Tom Wolfe and the New Journalism Legacy](https://leegutkind.com/tom-wolfe-and-the-new-journalism-legacy/) - Tom Wolfe, who died May 14 at 88, was perhaps best known in literary and journalistic circles, especially early on in his career, as the founder and the creator of what was called “the new journalism.” The truth is, however, that he did not particularly like the term and did not, as many believe, invent
- [A Book with a Lasting Impact](https://leegutkind.com/when-a-book-makes-an-impression/) - Nurses in Honor and Action I’ve been fortunate enough to edit dozens of books over the years—mostly, collections of new essays about subjects ranging from teachers to mental illness to the challenges of confronting end of life issues. Making a book has a sort of rhythm to it. You get really deep into a subject—reading
- [The trouble with writing science](https://leegutkind.com/the-trouble-with-writing-science/) - Once on a train from Greenwich to Manhattan, on a Tuesday, I watched a man in a grey pinstriped suit, blue oxford cloth shirt and red tie, settle into a seat in front and to the left of me, open the New York Times he had been carrying under his arm and then, without hesitation, toss
- ['Faction' is not creative nonfiction](https://leegutkind.com/faction-is-not-creative-nonfiction/) - I have a friend, let’s call her Cindy, who is constantly encouraging me to read Dan Brown’s new book, Origin. “It’s creative nonfiction,” she insists. “No,” I tell her, “it’s not.” Brown’s book is the fifth installment of a series of mysteries about an academic, Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of religious symbology and religious
- [Think Global, Act Local, and Immerse](https://leegutkind.com/think-global-act-local-and-immerse-2/) - I began writing creative nonfiction not because of a personal story I wanted to tell, but a story I wanted to create—part of a big idea—and kind of a life dream. I wanted to ride across the U.S. on a motorcycle. I had been riding Hondas, Ducati’s, Yamahas, etc., commuting around town and gradually venturing
- ['Journalistic Nonfiction' from Audible.com?](https://leegutkind.com/journalistic-nonfiction-from-audible-com/) - Whatever happened to creative nonfiction? Or narrative nonfiction? Or literary journalism? Or new journalism, or long-form nonfiction? I ask because I recently received a very unusual e-mail blast from Audible.com about a series of “obsessively specific categories” of literature called “Micro Genres.” And the one that caught my eye right away was “Journalistic Nonfiction.” To
- [Just Go With It](https://leegutkind.com/just-go-with-it/) - Ideas are everywhere—if a story goes with it. One reason I love researching and writing creative nonfiction is because it opens up the entire world to a nonfiction writer. There are no parameters or boundaries about what to write about. The catalogue of categories is, in many ways, infinite. You can write about anything from
- [What exactly is Creative Nonfiction?](https://leegutkind.com/what-exactly-is-creative-nonfiction/) - People are always asking: “What exactly is creative nonfiction?” The short answer, which appears on the banner of my magazine, Creative Nonfiction, is “True Stories Well Told.” But here’s a longer answer: Essentially, the mission of creative nonfiction is to communicate ideas and information in a cinematic way using the literary techniques employed by fiction
- [Masters in the Field](https://leegutkind.com/masters-in-the-field/) - Many think that creative nonfiction is a relatively new literary art form, but it is actually a tried and true approach to writing dramatic and memorable nonfiction, with a newish name. There are many terrific examples of creative nonfiction from early on. Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, his paean to bullfighting, was published in
- [Teaching in Two Places at the Same Time](https://leegutkind.com/teaching-in-two-places-at-the-same-time/) - I worked through the holiday season planning the creative nonfiction graduate course I will be teaching this spring term in Washington, D.C. And I am pretty excited about it. You’d think after all of these years teaching creative nonfiction that the prospect of teaching a course—one that I have, in one way or another, taught
- [Making your Story Matter](https://leegutkind.com/creative-nonfiction-and-writing-what-matters/) - It seems like criticizing our nation’s capital is the “in” thing to do these days; we’re supposed to “drain the swamp.” But I’ve been working in DC for two years now—that is to say, about twice as long as a lot of the people currently leading the federal government—and I have come to appreciate the

## Pages

- [Home](https://leegutkind.com/)
- [Links](https://leegutkind.com/media/) - Read the latest articles and view the most recent videos featuring Lee Gutkind.
- [Events](https://leegutkind.com/events/) - Keep up-to-date with Lee’s upcoming and most recent events.
- [Contact](https://leegutkind.com/contact/)
- [About Lee Gutkind](https://leegutkind.com/about/) - Writing in The New Yorker in the fall of 2023, Louis Menand credits the writer Lee Gutkind as the first person to use the term “creative nonfiction,” in print—thirty years ago. Menand’s credit to Gutkind is noteworthy, although a few writers and critics have used the term in print sparingly, off and on, as far
- [Awards](https://leegutkind.com/awards/) - Lee is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in the East, International Men of Achievement; International Directory of Distinguished Leadership; Who’s Who in American Publishing; Who’s Who in American Education. The Steve Allan Individual Award, by United Mental Health, Inc.Chancellor’s Award for Public ServiceMeritorious Service Award by American Council on TransplantationHoward Blakeslee

## Books

- [Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue](https://leegutkind.com/books/creative-nonfiction-the-final-issue/) - Edited by Lee Gutkind and Leslie Rubinkowski November 5, 2024 The very best writing from one of America’s most groundbreaking literary magazines. When Creative Nonfiction debuted in 1994, the literary genre it championed was largely the target of skepticism or downright ridicule. But at a time when few editors were interested in the personal essay, the magazine doggedly
- [The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-fine-art-of-literary-fist-fighting/) - In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then he took on his colleagues. His goal: to make creative nonfiction an accepted academic discipline, one as vital as poetry, drama, and fiction. In this book Gutkind tells the true story of how creative
- [My Last Eight-Thousand Days](https://leegutkind.com/books/my-last-eight-thousand-days/) - This revealing, candid, and vivid portrait of one man’s view of aging written by the man who played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy, examines male aging in a way we’ve not seen before. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape
- [On Nature](https://leegutkind.com/books/on-nature/) - The evocative essays in On Nature comprise a wide range of experiences and adventures. In "Against Nature," Joyce Carol Oates explains why writers generally resist nature as a topic, and at the same time comments on her place in the surrounding world. Diane Ackerman swims with a right whale and her calf in "The Moon
- [Connecting](https://leegutkind.com/books/connecting/) - Offering readers insight and wisdom as it sparks their memories of remarkable people in their lives, Connecting chronicles the personal and familial relationships of some of America's best-loved authors. Among the writers contributing to this compelling anthology are Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the end of a friendship and the beginning of adulthood; Alice
- [Healing](https://leegutkind.com/books/healing/) - At some time in our lives, most of us have been in need of healing—whether physical recovery from an illness or rebounding from an emotional wound. In Healing, the powerful essays encompass a wide range of experiences. In "Night Rhythms," John T. Price describes how he made peace with his brother's death by helping children
- [The Essayist at Work](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-essayist-at-work/) - “The Essayist At Work,” Creative Nonfiction’s first special issue, highlights the actual process of writing nonfiction. In contrast to the term “reportage,” the word “essay” usually connotes a more personal message from writer to reader, and the pieces here do just that. In this volume, writers explore the merits of email, reasons for running, and
- [Surviving Crisis](https://leegutkind.com/books/surviving-crisis/) - The literature of reality — also known as creative nonfiction — is the fastest-growing literary genre in the country today. Expressed in the form of essays, memoirs, articles, documentary drama, literary journalism, & narrative history, it dramatizes the truth as accurately as reportage yet is as compelling & personal as the best fiction. Highlighting events
- [In Fact](https://leegutkind.com/books/in-fact/) - A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre. Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays
- [Silence Kills](https://leegutkind.com/books/silence-kills/) - These stories explore a wide and complicated range of experiences—a doctor is pressured into sending a patient home from the emergency room but later must face his decision when the patient suddenly dies; a physician deals with the doubt brought on by a malpractice lawsuit and must come to terms with the fact that even
- [Rage and Reconciliation](https://leegutkind.com/books/rage-and-reconciliation/) - Rage and Reconciliation, one of Creative Nonfiction's most popular issues, has been re-released. The book includes new essays and an 80-minute CD containing three essays read by professional actors and a panel discussion of the ethical dimensions of the issues raised. In this special issue produced in conjunction with Pittsburgh's Jewish Healthcare Foundation, writers tackle
- [Anatomy of Baseball](https://leegutkind.com/books/anatomy-of-baseball/) - Stefan Fatsis sends his "stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect" glove to be restored by the Glove Designer at Rawlings; Susan Perabo considers retiring from her imaginary career and assesses the likelihood of women finding actual careers on the baseball field; Sean Wilentz imagines a Cooperstown Fans' Hall of Fame, with its cowbells, frying pans,
- [Pittsburgh In Words](https://leegutkind.com/books/pittsburgh-in-words/) - Rivers. Steel. Neighborhoods. Industry. Art. Football. Can words explain a city like Pittsburgh, with its rich history, complicated geography and diverse communities? Over the years, countless writers—who grew up in Pittsburgh, moved here or were just passing through—have taken up the challenge. Many wrote with love; some, with faint praise. (Will the city ever live
- [A View From The Divide](https://leegutkind.com/books/a-view-from-the-divide/) - In the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen J. Gould, and Oliver Sachs, this special double issue of Creative Nonfiction, the only exclusively nonfiction literary journal, demonstrates the many ways in which aspects of the scientific world—from biology, medicine, physics, and astronomy—can be captured and dramatized for a humanities-oriented readership. Edited and introduced by the award-winning
- [The Best Creative Nonfiction Series Box Set](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-best-creative-nonfiction-series-box-set/) - Together—or, for that matter, separately—the Best Creative Nonfiction collections are a crash-course in the genre, with selections taken from literary magazines and presses, online publications, blogs and some other unlikely sources. With true stories about everything from jail food to competitive eating, pack rats to rubber ducks, they showcase the tremendous variety and potential of
- [Keep It Real](https://leegutkind.com/books/keep-it-real/) - This handy guide begins by defining creative nonfiction. Then it explores the flexibility of the form—the liberties and the boundaries that allow writers to be as truthful, factual, and artful as possible. A succinct but rich compendium of ideas, terms, and techniques, Keep It Real will clarify the ins and outs of writing creative nonfiction.
- [The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 1](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-best-creative-nonfiction-volume-1/) - Creative Nonfiction scoured alternative publications, blogs, literary journals and other often-overlooked publications in search of new voices and innovative ideas for essays written with panache and power. In these works, writers explore the sport of competitive eating; ponder the identity of mysterious woman who killed herself in a Seattle hotel room; undergo medical testing to
- [The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 2](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-best-creative-nonfiction-volume-2-edited-by-lee-gutkind-price-15-95-add-to-cart-book-details-338-pages-paperback-edited-by-lee-gutkind-w-w-norton-company-inc-c-2008-isbn-978-0-393-330/) - This fresh collection of fact-based narratives—mined from blogs, alternative papers, literary journals, and other out-of-the-way publications—engages and delights with exceptional work about topics from birth to death and everything in between. Stefan Fatsis, author of World Freak, traces the history of his baseball glove; Donovan Hohn chases a spilled cargo-load of rubber ducks bobbing along
- [The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-best-creative-nonfiction-volume-3/) - Anyone still asking, “What is creative nonfiction?” will find the answer in this collection of artfully crafted, true stories. Selected by Lee Gutkind and the staff of Creative Nonfiction, these stories—ranging from immersion journalism to intensely personal essays—illustrate the genre’s power and potential. Edwidge Danticat recalls her Uncle Moïse’s love of a certain four-letter word
- [Our Roots Are Deep With Passion](https://leegutkind.com/books/our-roots-are-deep-with-passion/) - In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and emerging writers with family ties to Italy reflect on the ways that their lives have been accented with uniquely Italian-American flavors. Several of the essays breathe new life into the time-honored theme of family—Louise DeSalvo honors her grandfather, nick-named “the
- [Hurricanes and Carnivals](https://leegutkind.com/books/hurricanes-and-carnivals/) - ''In Mexico,'' writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection, ''[the essay] is embraced as passionately as a sport.'' While the American essay may be personal and confessional or erudite and academic, it is presumed to be truthful. By contrast, the Mexican essay pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction as writers
- [Our Roots Grow Deeper Than We Know](https://leegutkind.com/books/our-roots-grow-deeper-than-we-know/) - Gathers stories and essays about Pennsylvania childhoods, cities, heritage, and state history.
- [True Crime](https://leegutkind.com/books/true-crime/) - The real-life stories collected here reflect not only the myriad ways in which a law can be broken, but also the countless ways in which crime — whether in the news or close to home — can be experienced. In these diverse and compelling narratives, award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and
- [Twelve Breaths a Minute](https://leegutkind.com/books/twelve-breaths-a-minute/) - “A gripping and passionate account of how we face the final rite of passage. These stories mine the agility of the human spirit, and will not easily be forgotten.”—Danielle Ofri, author of Medicine in Translation and Singular Intimacies Twelve Breaths a Minute—the latest collaboration between SMU Press and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, with the support of the Jewish
- [Southern Sin](https://leegutkind.com/books/southern-sin/) - 23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition... In the steamy South, temptation is as wild and plentiful as kudzu. Whether the sin in question is skinny-dipping or becoming an unlikely porn star, running rum or renting out a room to a pair of exhibitionistic adulterers, in these true stories women defy tradition and forge
- [At the End of Life](https://leegutkind.com/books/at-the-end-of-life/) - What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies—and although most Americans say they would prefer to die peacefully at home, more than half of all deaths take place in hospitals or health care facilities.
- [True Stories, Well Told](https://leegutkind.com/books/true-stories-well-told/) - Creative nonfiction is the literary equivalent of jazz: it’s a rich mix of flavors, ideas, voices, and techniques—some newly invented, and others as old as writing itself. This collection of 20 gripping, beautifully-written nonfiction narratives is as diverse as the genre Creative Nonfiction magazine has helped popularize. Contributions by Phillip Lopate, Brenda Miller, Carolyn Forche,
- [Creating Nonfiction](https://leegutkind.com/books/creating-nonfiction/) - The editors of Creative Nonfiction have selected their favorite craft essays from the early issues of the groundbreaking literary journal. Authors including Roy Peter Clark, Bret Lott, and Hilary Masters grapple with issues such as the line between fact and fiction, how to convey voice effectively, and the challenges of writing about family members. Edited
- [Becoming a Doctor](https://leegutkind.com/books/becoming-a-doctor/) - These original stories reveal the inner lives of the men and women who are often rendered invisible by their white coats. Unfailingly honest, they bring to life doctors' daily attempts to bring healing to their patients. In this poignant and fascinating collection, doctors who are writers (and vice versa) relate their real-life journeys from intern
- [For the Love of Baseball](https://leegutkind.com/books/for-the-love-of-baseball/) - Stefan Fatsis sends his “stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect” glove to be restored by the glove designer at Rawlings. Frank Deford makes the case that the baseball cap may be the most universal article of clothing ever designed. Roger Angell considers why it is that pitchers are “so much livelier and more garrulous than
- [Writing Away the Stigma](https://leegutkind.com/books/writing-away-the-stigma/) - One in four American adults will endure the trials of a mental health condition this year, and more than half will experience one in their lifetime. Yet the stigma of mental illness remains, leading many to face their difficulties in shame and silence. In this collection, ten writers confront the stigma of mental illness head-on,
- [I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out](https://leegutkind.com/books/i-wasnt-strong-like-this-when-i-started-out/) - This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first “sticks,” first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts, and keeps them in the profession. The stories reveal many voices from nurses
- [The Rightful Place of Science](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-rightful-place-of-science/) - Creative nonfiction means true stories well told, communicating ideas and information in an accessible narrative form to enlighten and inform general readers. This volume is a collection of narrative essays that presents expert knowledge about science, technology, and innovation policy without the use of buzzwords and jargon. The Rightful Place of Science is a book
- [Same Time Next Week](https://leegutkind.com/books/same-time-next-week/) - In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness—and yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as “mentally ill.” We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in many—maybe even most—cases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often intimate stories reflect the writers’ struggles to overcome—both
- [Oh, Baby](https://leegutkind.com/books/oh-baby/) - In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of life—straight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptive—explore the challenges and rewards of parenthood. Here, among other adventures, parents fall hopelessly in love with newborns, secretly fear having made huge mistakes, race to finish birthing at home before the paramedics arrive, struggle with the bureaucracy
- [Bike Fever](https://leegutkind.com/books/bike-fever/) - Few things loom as large in our imaginations as the idea of a cross-country trip, exposed to the elements and open to whatever challenges lie around the bend. In the early 1970s, looking to experience and explain the allure of the road trip, Lee Gutkind embarked on a long motorcycle road trip, documenting the misadventures
- [The People of Penn's Woods West](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-people-of-penns-woods-west/) - From baseball to the backwoods, this series of essays concerns the people Lee met during explorations on his motorcycle, people who could never quite catch up with modern times: a cooper, a one-arm blacksmith living in a tar paper shack, a scotsman who hikes part way across the country in search of the woman and
- [God’s Helicopter](https://leegutkind.com/books/gods-helicopter/) - This novel–Lee’s one and only–is about a boy growing up in Pittsburgh and the impact of this best friend’s death.
- [One Children's Place](https://leegutkind.com/books/one-childrens-place/) - One Children's Place is the address of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, one of the nation's finest pediatric institutions. Award-winning science writer Lee Gutkind takes the reader into the operating room and into the private lives of staff and patients alike. We meet the chief surgeon, a master of inventive thinking who has both the nerve
- [Many Sleepless Nights](https://leegutkind.com/books/many-sleepless-nights/) - Although organ transplantation is the preeminent medical miracle of the last quarter of a century, Many Sleepless Nights is the first book to go beyond the headlines and describe the patients who have embraced this last chance to hold on to life, the intricate medical procedures that can save them, the surgeons and nurses who
- [The Best Seat In Baseball, But You Have to Stand](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-best-seat-in-baseball-but-you-have-to-stand/) - To provide this unique—if controversial—look at major league baseball as umpires see it, Lee Gutkind spent the 1974 season traveling with the umpiring crew of Doug Harvey, Mick Colosi, Harry Wendelstedt, and Art Williams, the first black umpire in the National League. The result is an honest, realistic, insightful study of the private and professional
- [Stuck in Time](https://leegutkind.com/books/stuck-in-time/) - More than 7.5 million children and adolescents in the United States suffer from serious mental health problems, yet only one fifth receive treatment or services to alleviate their suffering system often receive care that is inappropriate or overly severe. In Stuck in Time, Lee Gutkind examines this major crisis in American health care by dramatically
- [An Unspoken Art](https://leegutkind.com/books/an-unspoken-art/) - In the tradition of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small, An Unspoken Art is Lee Gutkind’s captivating look at the lives of veterinarians, from the zoos to the farm Lee Gutkind, the godfather of creative nonfiction, explores with warmth and sincerity the worlds of modern-day veterinarians—from practitioners operating on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to those working knee
- [Creative Nonfiction](https://leegutkind.com/books/creative-nonfiction/) - Gutkind (English, Univ. of Pittsburgh), the editor of the new Creative Nonfiction journal, knows his craft. He encourages would-be writers to practice “immersion” journalism to bring their writing to life, making it more like fiction, only verifiable and accurate. Practicing what he preaches, he has concisely packaged a creative-writing course in a book, using readings
- [The Veterinarian's Touch](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-veterinarians-touch/) - Since James Herriot first began his practice almost a century ago, new technologies and the changing concerns of animal owners have dramatically altered the veterinarian’s world. Through a kaleidoscope of contrasting portraits, Lee Gutkind introduces an equally impassioned lot of doctors and their sometimes eccentric patients. Animal lovers will love this journey from tony, expensive
- [You Can't Make This Stuff Up](https://leegutkind.com/books/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up/) - From rags-to-riches-to-rags tell-alls to personal health sagas to literary journalism everyone seems to want to try their hand at creative nonfiction. Now, Lee Gutkind, the go-to expert for all things creative nonfiction, taps into one of the fastest-growing genres with this new writing guide. Frank and to-the-point, with depth and clarity, Gutkind describes and illustrates
- [Almost Human](https://leegutkind.com/books/almost-human/) - In the high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, Segways scoot across the floor chasing and shooting soccer balls while other robots hunt for treasure. Nursebots, developed to care for hospital patients, mingle with a robotic Lara Croft lookalike. Lee Gutkind immersed himself in this frenzied subculture, and in Almost Human he introduces
- [Truckin' With Sam](https://leegutkind.com/books/truckin-with-sam/) - After years of thinking he’d never have kids, Lee Gutkind became a father at forty-seven and, following his divorce, soon found himself taking over more and more of the primary care responsibilities for his son, Sam. As one of a growing number of “old new dads” (recent studies have shown that one in ten children
- [Forever Fat](https://leegutkind.com/books/forever-fat-2/) - Dubbed—some would say drubbed—the “godfather behind creative nonfiction” by Vanity Fair, Lee Gutkind takes the occasion of these essays, and the rich material of his own life, to define, defend, and further expand the genre he has done so much to shape. The result is an explosive and hilarious memoir of Gutkind’s colorful life as
- [The Art of Creative Nonfiction](https://leegutkind.com/books/the-art-of-creative-nonfiction/) - A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction--from one of its pioneer practitioners The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind guide, award-winning author, essayist, teacher, and editor
- [An Immense New Power to Heal](https://leegutkind.com/books/an-immense-new-power-to-heal/) - Is personalized medicine—what some scientists call genetic medicine—a pipe dream or a panacea? Francis Collins, current director of the National Institutes of Health and director of the Human Genome Project, considers this new era “the greatest revolution since Leonardo,” while Nobel Laureate Leland Hartwell compares personalized medicine to a train that has not yet left
- [High Notes](https://leegutkind.com/books/high-notes/) - Admired by generations of reporters, Gay Talese has for more than six decades enriched American journalism with an unmatched ability to inhabit the worlds of his subjects. From the long-form Esquire articles that germinated into his masterful books―including Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor's Wife―to indelible portraits like the canonical "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"
- [(Anthology) Show Me All Your Scars](https://leegutkind.com/books/anthology-show-me-all-your-scars-true-stories-of-working-through-mental-illness/) - Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her

## Events

- [True Stories That Matter: Applying Creative Nonfiction to Science & Policy](https://leegutkind.com/event/true-stories-that-matter-applying-creative-nonfiction-to-science-policy/) - You’ve produced some important research or a policy plan that could create meaningful change. How do you make your ideas and proposals stand out and get read? Creative nonfiction offers a way for researchers, policy wonks, program managers, grant writers, and writers of all forms to turn their ideas into compelling narratives. Join Lee Gutkind, the
- [Live Virtual Conversation](https://leegutkind.com/event/facebook-live-virtual-conversation/) - Hosted by Goucher College's Creative Nonfiction writing program, join Lee for a live virtual discussion of his memoir My Last Eight Thousand Days and the future of the creative nonfiction genre. Register here to join.
- [Write On! Radio Live](https://leegutkind.com/event/write-on-radio-live/) - Tune in to KFAI’s Write On! Radio segment, from 7:30-8:00 p.m. CT November 17th, for a conversation with Lee about his new memoir.
- [The Risks & Rewards of Writing Memoir](https://leegutkind.com/event/the-risks-rewards-of-writing-memoir-free-webinar-ama-with-creative-nonfiction-founder-lee-gutkind/) - Join Creative Nonfiction for a free Webinar & AMA with the magazine's founding editor Lee Gutkind. In this hour-long event, Lee will discuss memoir’s risks and rewards, follow by a Q&A session where attendees can ask Lee anything they want about writing, teaching, or his life as a creative nonfiction pioneer. Register here to join
- [In Conversation with Barbara Abercrombie](https://leegutkind.com/event/in-conversation-with-barbara-abercrombie/) - Join Lee and Barbara Abercrombie, author and professor of writing at UCLA as they discuss art, craft and secrets of memoir writing. The virtual event is set for 6-7 p.m. PST (9-10 p.m. EST) on October 6th, and is hosted by Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles. Register here to join.
- [In Conversation with Steven Beschloss](https://leegutkind.com/event/virtual-conversation-with-steven-beschloss/) - Join a virtual conversation with Lee and award-winning journalist Steven Beschloss for a reading hosted by the Arizona-based Changing Hands Bookstore, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. PST (9:30-10:30 p.m. EST) on October 20th. Beschloss is senior director for Narrative Development at Arizona State University and director of ASU's ASU's Narrative Storytelling Initiative. Register here to join.
- [In Conversation with Vivian Gornick](https://leegutkind.com/event/virtual-with-lilian-gornick/) - Join a virtual conversation with Lee and award-winning critic and memoirist Vivian Gornick, hosted by The Strand Bookstore, from 7-8 p.m. EST on October 1st, the day of the launch of Lee's new memoir. Register here to join. Sign up for e-newsletters in the footer below to receive invites to your inbox.
- [Write On! Radio Live](https://leegutkind.com/event/write-on-live-interview/) - Tune in to KFAI's Write On! Radio segment, from 7-7:30 p.m. CT October 13th, for a conversation with Lee about his new memoir. More details coming soon.
- ['Made Local' Lecture Series](https://leegutkind.com/event/virtual-event/) - Presented in partnership with Creative Nonfiction and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Arts & Lectures presents Made Local: Lee Gutkind, from 7-8 p.m. EST on October 19th. More event details here.
- [Writers Panel: Telling the Story](https://leegutkind.com/event/writers-panel-telling-the-story/) - This year's Annual Conference will feature a moderated lunchtime discussion with authors of recent books related to international development. Many in the international development world have lived and traveled extensively, engaged with people from all parts of the world and in a broad range of situations, have encountered countless challenges, witnessed success and failure, and
- [Writing True Stories That Matter: Turning Research into Narrative through Creative Nonfiction](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-true-stories-that-matter-turning-research-into-narrative-through-creative-nonfiction-2/) - Effectively communicating your story is more important than ever. No matter your professional background or career goals, sharing your ideas with diverse audiences is critical. Writing True Stories That Matter will give you the tools to transform information into compelling nonfiction narratives. The first course to be offered at Arizona State University’s Washington, DC headquarters,
- [Writing True Stories That Matter: Turning Research into Narrative through Creative Nonfiction](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-true-stories-that-matter-turning-research-into-narrative-through-creative-nonfiction/) - WRITING TRUE STORIES THAT MATTER Effectively communicating your story is more important than ever. No matter your professional background or career goals, sharing your ideas with diverse audiences is critical. Writing True Stories That Matter will give you the tools to transform information into compelling nonfiction narratives. The first course to be offered at Arizona
- [Creative Nonfiction Craft Intensive](https://leegutkind.com/event/creative-nonfiction-craft-intensive/) - Creative Nonfiction is the hottest genre of the publishing industry, not only in creative writing programs, but in science, technology, law, economics and throughout the humanities. Whether you are crafting personal essays, narrative reports or memoir, it’s crucial to keep the reader in mind. This intensive day-and-a-half workshop, led by Lee Gutkind, acclaimed author and editor of Creative Nonfiction Magazine and Dinty W. Moore, editor of Brevity, a Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction will delve
- [Science & Religion - Exploring the Harmonies: A Media Perspective with Writers and Editors from The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard](https://leegutkind.com/event/science-religion-exploring-the-harmonies-a-media-perspective/) - Science and religion co-exist in our world in many complex, interesting, and productive ways beyond the caricature of conflict and contradiction. Join us for readings, conversations, and the launch of “Science and Religion: Exploring the Harmonies”—the special fall issues of Creative Nonfiction and Issues in Science and Technology magazines. This event is free. Please register here.
- [Bringing Havana to Life - Writing Workshop](https://leegutkind.com/event/bringing-havana-to-life-writing-workshop/) - Cuba is one of the most fascinating and beguiling countries in the world, a vibrant and complex blend of history, people, and contemporary culture. Political tensions have all but hidden the enchanting Cuban culture and people from most Americans until recently. This new educational program offers a rare opportunity to engage with the Cuban people
- [Yoga and Creative Nonfiction](https://leegutkind.com/event/yoga-and-creative-nonfiction/) - Blue Spirit, your home for a fun-filled week, is one of the foremost world-class yoga and meditation retreat centers in Costa Rica, providing an extraordinary setting for personal growth, writing inspiration, clean eating, and creative expression. Located in one of the world’s 5 Blue Zones, Blue Spirit is perched on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific
- [Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference](https://leegutkind.com/event/creative-nonfiction-writers-conference/) - Join us in Pittsburgh May 27th – 29th, Memorial Day Weekend, for the 4th annual Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference. Whether you're starting to write your first essay or article or have a couple of books under your belt, we have something for you. In just three days you can meet one-on-one with a literary agent
- [Writing Away the Stigma Reading & Conversation](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-away-the-stigma-reading-conversation/) - Writing Away the Stigma combines a series of free writing workshops and fellowships, a funded editorial fellowship, and public readings and events designed to help demonstrate that true stories can counteract the dangerous and shameful stigma surrounding mental illness. In observance of Mental Health Month, we will be hosting a series of free events during May. We hope
- [Writing Away the Stigma Reading & Conversation](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-away-the-stigma-reading-conversation-2/) - Writing Away the Stigma combines a series of free writing workshops and fellowships, a funded editorial fellowship, and public readings and events designed to help demonstrate that true stories can counteract the dangerous and shameful stigma surrounding mental illness. In observance of Mental Health Month, we will be hosting a series of free events during May. We hope
- [Writing Away the Stigma Graduation Reading & Reception](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-away-the-stigma-graduation-reading-reception/) - Doors open at 6 p.m., reading begins at 6:45. The museum’s fantastic collection will be open to attendees, free of charge, starting at 6 p.m. Hearty appetizers & beverages will be served. Online Registration for the 6th is now closed, please register at the door.
- [Writing Away the Stigma Workshop](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-away-the-stigma-workshop/) - Creative Nonfiction founder and editor Lee Gutkind will offer a free writing workshop focused on telling true stories about mental illness. This workshop is part of our ongoing Writing Away the Stigma project. Check-in will begin at 3:30 p.m. and the workshop will take place from 4-6 pm. A reception with light appetizers and drinks
- [How to Begin a Creative Nonfiction Essay](https://leegutkind.com/event/how-to-begin-a-creative-nonfiction-essay/) - The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference gathers writers, scholars, and lovers of literature for three days of instruction, conversation, and inspiration. We aim to provide practical information to writers of all levels, and to create a supportive environment for community building. Entering its thirteenth year, the 2016 conference will feature highly accomplished faculty in
- [The Experiential: Writing Public & Private Disaster](https://leegutkind.com/event/the-experiential-writing-public-private-disaster/) - Lee Gutkind joins T. Jefferson Parker and Hugh Martin in a conversation about writing the experiential.
- [Scholarly Writing: Publishing Academic & Creative Nonfiction.](https://leegutkind.com/event/scholarly-writing-publishing-academic-creative-nonfiction/) - Join Lee Gutkind and Sally Kitch in a discussion about publishing creative nonfiction, in the historic Old Main building at Arizona State University.
- [Nurses: Heroes of the Medical Profession](https://leegutkind.com/event/nurses-heroes-of-the-medical-profession/) - The Nursing Advisory Council invites Lee Gutkind as the keynote speaker at the annual Spring Luncheon to discuss the heroes of the medical profession.
- [You Can’t Make This Stuff Up](https://leegutkind.com/event/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-lecture-and-workshop/) - Presentation
- [Writing True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-true-stories-that-matter-4/) - Lecture and workshop To learn more and register visit: http://www.press.org/events/writing-true-stories-make-difference-law-and-order-it-all
- [Frankenstein Bicentennial Project](https://leegutkind.com/event/frankenstein-bicentennial-project/) - Nonfiction and publication group leader.
- [Writing True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-true-stories-that-matter-2/) - A lecture and workshop.
- [Reading and Panel](https://leegutkind.com/event/reading-and-panel-leader/)
- [Telling True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/telling-true-stories-that-matter-5/) - A lecture and workshop.
- [Reading and Writing Narrative Medicine](https://leegutkind.com/event/reading-and-writing-narrative-medicine/) - A two-part workshop.
- [Telling True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/telling-true-stories-that-matter-4/) - A lecture and workshop.
- [True Stories Well Told](https://leegutkind.com/event/true-stories-well-told/) - A reading.
- [Telling True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/telling-true-stories-that-matter-3/) - A lecture and workshop.
- [Telling True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/telling-true-stories-that-matter-2/) - A lecture and workshop.
- [New Yorkers and Baseball](https://leegutkind.com/event/new-yorkers-and-baseball/) - A book talk.
- [Workshop](https://leegutkind.com/event/workshop/)
- [Telling True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/telling-true-stories-that-matter/) - A lecture and workshop.
- [Keynote Address](https://leegutkind.com/event/keynote-address/) - Keynote Speaker
- [The Best Creative Nonfiction Conference](https://leegutkind.com/event/the-best-creative-nonfiction-conference/) - Keynote speaker and workshop leader.
- [Writing Away the Stigma](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-away-the-stigma/) - Keynote speaker with presentation and reading for Western Pennsylvania chapter’s annual meeting.
- [You Can’t Make This Stuff Up](https://leegutkind.com/event/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-2/) - Keynote Presentation
- [Writing True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-true-stories-that-matter/) - Keynote Speaker
- [Writing True Stories That Matter](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-true-stories-that-matter-a-lecture-and-workshop/) - Lecture and workshop.
- [You Can’t Make This Stuff Up](https://leegutkind.com/event/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-keynote-presentation/) - Keynote Presentation
- [You Can’t Make This Stuff Up](https://leegutkind.com/event/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-keynote-presentation-2/) - Keynote Presentation
- [Rising Stars](https://leegutkind.com/event/rising-stars-workshop-and-reading/) - Workshop and reading.
- [Writing Away the Stigma](https://leegutkind.com/event/writing-away-the-stigma-a-reading-and-presentation/) - A reading and presentation.
- [Creative Nonfiction’s 20th Anniversary](https://leegutkind.com/event/creative-nonfictions-20th-anniversary/) - A reading and celebration.
- [“Un-Gala”](https://leegutkind.com/event/un-gala/) - Presentation of the Creative Nonfiction sustainability issue partnership with the Walton Sustainability Initiative.

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