Creative nonfiction the magazine

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Lee Gutkind Lee Gutkind some call him the “Godfather of Creative Nonfiction” is the editor and founder of the magazine Creative Nonfiction. It is the first and largest literary magazine. It focus on nonfiction exclusively. Featuring well known and up and coming talents, this publication delivers a diverse mix of personal essays, literary journalism, memoirs, profiles and book reviews.

When he was in his 20’s he decided to become a creative nonfiction writer. He wanted to write about things that were real and dangerous. He liked the way Hemingway described things when he wrote and described the character through involvement. When he started writing creative nonfiction he wanted to do it to inspire people and make a difference in some part of the world. 

In order to know about other people and other things he has traveled around the world and visited other countries. He is traveling and visiting other places and trying to get a feel of how other people live. “At the time, I was a motorcyclist, and I was traveling extensively around the country on my two-wheeled machine This was the subject of my first book. Since then, I have traveled through a half dozen different worlds in order to write books about baseball umpires, organ transplantation, veterinary hospitals, psychiatric institutions, children's hospitals with the same ideas and intentions in mind.” Lee Gutkind Some of Lee Gutkind’s works are Many Sleepless Nights, One Children’s Place: Children’s Hospital, In Fact Paperback, and The Veterinarian’s Touch.

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