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NON-FICTION is a book that is about actual, factual events.

Sometimes NON-FICTION books are dramatized to make it more interesting to read.

What are the GENRES of NON-FICTION?

1. Diary / Journal
   1. A day-to-day record a person keeps of his or her own thoughts
   2. Usually written for the author’s eyes only
      1. EXAMPLE – Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl, The Journals of Lewis and Clark
2. Autobiography
   1. A story of a person’s own life written by that person
      1. EXAMPLE – Andre Agassi’s Open, Ghandi’s The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Latifa’s My Forbidden Face
3. Biography
   1. A story of a person’s life written by someone other than that person
      1. EXAMPLE – Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Bernice Seldon’s The Story of Walt Disney
4. Travelogue
   1. Records the experiences of an author touring a place of travel in order to observe other cultures and experience new things
      1. EXAMPLE – Mark Salzman’s Iron and Silk, Nan Watkin’s A Woman’s Solo Journey around the World

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