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Lee Gutkind
Author · 34 books
Lee Gutkind has been recognized by Vanity Fair as “the godfather behind creative nonfiction.” A prolific writer, he has authored and edited over twenty-five books, and is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary magazine to publish only narrative nonfiction. Gutkind has received grants, honors, and awards from numerous organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation. A man of many talents, Gutkind has been a motorcyclist, medical insider, sports expert, sailor, and college professor. He is currently distinguished writer in residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University and a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.

Series

Books

An Unspoken Art book cover

An Unspoken Art

Profiles of Veterinary Life

1997

Creative Nonfiction Issue 47 book cover

Creative Nonfiction Issue 47

2013

Keep It Real book cover

Keep It Real

Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

2008

What I Didn't Know book cover

What I Didn't Know

True Stories of Becoming a Teacher

1739

Creative Nonfiction

2025

I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out book cover

I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out

True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

2013

Becoming a Doctor book cover

Becoming a Doctor

From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences

2010

At the End of Life book cover

At the End of Life

True Stories About How We Die

2012

For the Love of Baseball book cover

For the Love of Baseball

A Celebration of the Game That Connects Us All

2014

Diversity Dialogues book cover

Diversity Dialogues

2002

Creative Nonfiction Issue 49 book cover

Creative Nonfiction Issue 49

2013

The Essayist at Work book cover

The Essayist at Work

Profiles of Creative Nonfiction Writers

1998

The Line Between Fact and Fiction book cover

The Line Between Fact and Fiction

2000

Creative Nonfiction #23

2004

You Can't Make This Stuff Up book cover

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction -- from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between

2012

The Art of Creative Nonfiction book cover

The Art of Creative Nonfiction

Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality

1997

A View From The Divide book cover

A View From The Divide

Creative Nonfiction on Health and Science

1998

Creative Nonfiction No. 1

1993

The Veterinarian's Touch book cover

The Veterinarian's Touch

Profiles of Life Among Animals

1998

One Children's Place book cover

One Children's Place

Inside a Children's Hospital

1991

Stuck in Time book cover

Stuck in Time

The Tragedy of Childhood Mental Illness

1993

Oh, Baby book cover

Oh, Baby

True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love

2015

True Crime book cover

True Crime

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

2013

Our Roots Are Deep with Passion book cover

Our Roots Are Deep with Passion

New Essays by Italian-American Writers

2006

Creative Nonfiction Issue 48 book cover

Creative Nonfiction Issue 48

2013

The Universal Chord book cover

The Universal Chord

1998

Anatomy Of Baseball book cover

Anatomy Of Baseball

2008

Same Time Next Week book cover

Same Time Next Week

True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness

2015

Twelve Breaths a Minute book cover

Twelve Breaths a Minute

End-of-Life Essays

2011

Forever Fat book cover

Forever Fat

Essays by the Godfather

2003

Creative Nonfiction book cover

Creative Nonfiction

How to Live It and Write It

1996

Many Sleepless Nights book cover

Many Sleepless Nights

The World of Organ Transplantation

1988

Almost Human book cover

Almost Human

Making Robots Think

2007

Silence Kills book cover

Silence Kills

Speaking Out and Saving Lives

2007

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