Description: Style and Story is for those who wish to craft nonfiction texts that do more than simply relay facts and arguments. Stephen J. Pyne explains how writers can employ literary tools and strategies to strengthen their work. With advice gleaned from years of teaching writing to graduate students, Pyne offers pragmatic guidance on how to create powerful nonfiction, whether for an academic or popular audience.
Review Quotes: "Style and Story is a useful guide for all nonfiction writers."--Choice
"An immensely helpful primer on writing nonfiction. Style and Story offers invaluable advice, suggestions, and samples to help beginners as well as veterans improve their writing."--Richard W. Etulain, author of Ernest Haycox and the Western "Style and Story can be read fruitfully across disciplines and serve the needs of students and writers from MFA programs to history departments."--Christopher Cokinos, co-editor of The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide "Go through Pyne's boot camp, and you'll emerge a better writer--and a better reader and a better thinker, too. Style and Story belongs alongside Strunk and White, Anne Lamott, and William Zinsser on the look-it-up shelf."--Gregory McNamee, author of Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest