In fact :  The best of Creative nonfiction / 
edited by Lee Gutkind ; introduction by Annie Dillard. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  W.W. Norton & Co.,  c2005. 
 - xxxvi, 440 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>CONTENTS: Introduction : notes for young writers / Annie  Dillard -- The creative nonfiction police? / Lee Gutkind  -- Three spheres / Lauren Slater -- Looking at Emmett  Till / John Edgar Wideman -- Shunned / Meredith Hall --  An album quilt / John McPhee -- Dinner at Uncle Boris's /  Charles Simic -- Prayer dogs / Terry Tempest Williams --  What is it we really harvestin' here? / Ntozake Shange --  The Brown study / Richard Rodriguez -- Killing wolves /  Sherry Simpson -- Being Brians / Brian Doyle -- Language  at play / Diane Ackerman -- Finders keepers: the story of Joey Coyle / Mark Bowden --  Notes from a difficult case / Ruthann Robson --  Adventures in celestial navigation / Philip Gerard --  Leaving Babylon: a walk through the Jewish divorce  ceremony / Judyth Har-Even -- Gray area: thinking with a  damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Joe stopped by / Andrei  Codrescu -- In the woods / Leslie Rubinkowski -- Sa'm  Pe&#768;di / Madison Smartt Bell -- Going native / Francine  Prose -- Chimera / Gerald N. Callahan -- Mixed-blood stew  / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- Why I ride / Jana Richman --  Delivering Lily / Phillip Lopate.         
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393326659 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004016506 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays.<br/>American prose literature--20th century.<br/>American prose literature--21st century.<br/>Creative nonfiction.<br/>Journalism--United States.<br/>Reportage literature, American.