Lee Gutkind

In the tradition of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, An Unspoken Art is Lee Gutkind's captivating look at the lives of veterinarians, from the zoos to the farm Lee Gutkind, the godfather of creative nonfiction, explores with warmth and sincerity the worlds of modern-day veterinarians-from practitioners operating on Manhattan's Upper East Side to those working knee deep in mud in the English countryside. Gutkind profiles the men and...

Creative nonfiction is the literary equivalent of jazz: it's a rich mix of flavors, ideas, voices, and techniques—some newly invented, and others as old as writing itself. This collection of 20 gripping, beautifully-written nonfiction narratives is as diverse as the genre Creative Nonfiction magazine has helped popularize. Contributions by Phillip Lopate, Brenda Miller, Carolyn Forche, Toi Derricotte, Lauren Slater and others draw

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A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction-from one of its pioneer practitioners The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind guide, it gives you concise, pointed advice on every aspect of writing and selling your work, including: * Guidelines for choosing provocative-and salable-topics *...

A harrowing exploration of one of the country's most troubling hidden shames: the widespread neglect of disabled children by the institutions that have sworn to protect them Four-fifths of American children with serious mental health problems receive no professional treatment whatsoever. They are the product of an overextended and often neglectful system that, as Lee Gutkind writes, has reached the level of insanity. Following the stories of three...

Winner of the American Heart Association's Howard W. Blakeslee Award for outstanding achievement in scientific journalism: Lee Gutkind's riveting and groundbreaking account of the science, ethics, and life-changing capacity of organ transplantation Over the past six decades, the rapid advances in transplant surgery rank among the most impressive and significant in modern human history. But the procedures, which have an astonishing power to improve...

A fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction In 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual proposal. He wanted to chronicle one of the least celebrated cadres in professional baseball: the umpires. Gutkind spent one exhilarating season traveling with the officiating crew he found that day-Doug Harvey, Nick Colosi, Harry Wendelstedt, and Art...

Through writing samples, anecdotes, and exercises, explains how to write nonfiction in an entertaining way.

"Author Lee Gutkind introduces us to Zoe, Groundhog, Grace, and Sandstorm - all of whom are robots designed to help humans or, in some cases, to replace them." "This realm of robots is controlled by engineers and software designers - the backbone of the robotics field. Gutkind joined this brilliant crew, following these roboticists and their bold conceptual machines from Pittsburgh to flooded coal mines to NASA bases and even to the Atacama, the most...

"In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness -- and yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as 'mentally ill.' We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in many -- maybe even most -- cases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often intimate stories reflect the writers' struggles to overcome -- both as professionals and as individuals, as current therapists and as former patients...