# You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between

**Author(s):** Lee Gutkind
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**Genres:** Biography, Exposition (rhetoric), Creative writing, Authorship
**Pages:** 290
**Publisher:** Da Capo Lifelong Books
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780738215860
**ISBN-10:** 0738215864
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-the-complete-guide-to-writing-creative-nonfiction-from-memoir-to-literary-journalism-and-everything-in-between

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