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Lee Gutkind

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Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind is an American writer, speaker, and founder of the literary journal called Creative Nonfiction.

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Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness

Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness

Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue: The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue: The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction

2024
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

2024
Same Time Next Week: True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness

Same Time Next Week: True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness

2015
One Children's Place

One Children's Place

2014
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine

True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine

2014
I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

2013
Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly

Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly

2013

with Beth Ann Fennelly

True Crime: Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-robbing, and More

True Crime: Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-robbing, and More

2013
You Can't Make This Stuff Up

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

2012
At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

2012
An Immense New Power to Heal

An Immense New Power to Heal

2012
Almost Human

Almost Human

2010
The best creative nonfiction

The best creative nonfiction

2009
Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

2008
Hurricanes and Carnivals: Essays by Chicanos, Pochos, Pachucos, Mexicanos, and Expatriates

Hurricanes and Carnivals: Essays by Chicanos, Pochos, Pachucos, Mexicanos, and Expatriates

2007
Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives

Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives

2007
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

2004
Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather

Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather

2003
The Essayist at Work: Profiles of Creative Nonfiction Writers

The Essayist at Work: Profiles of Creative Nonfiction Writers

1998
The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality

The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality

1997
Many sleepless nights

Many sleepless nights

1988