Lee Gutkind: 11 books
An Unspoken Art
Profiles of Veterinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
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...
The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!
The Game as Umpires See It
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
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:...
Bike Fever
On Motorcycle Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Lee Gutkind’s memoir of motorcycling, and an ode to the solitude, independence, and exhilaration of the open road
Few things loom as large in our imaginations as the idea of a cross-country trip, exposed to the elements and open to whatever challenges lie around the bend. In the early 1970s,...
Many Sleepless Nights
The World of Organ Transplantation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
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...
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus).
Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or...
Stuck in Time
The Tragedy of Childhood Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
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....
One Children's Place
Inside a Children's Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
“A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children’s hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care.” —The New England Journal of Medicine
Lee Gutkind is a master at stepping into the worlds of medicine...
by Lee Gutkind
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy.
The high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world’s first...
An Immense New Power to Heal
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Is personalized medicine—what some scientists call genetic medicine—a pipe dream or a panacea? Francis Collins, current director of the National Institutes of Health and director of the Human Genome Project, considers this new era “the greatest revolution since Leonardo,” while Nobel Laureate...
The Art of Creative Nonfiction
Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
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...
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion
New Essays by Italian-American Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of Creative Nonfiction explore the meanings of Italian-American identity.
In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and emerging writers with family ties to Italy...