The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

558 pp. "Historical and international in scope, a unique anthology traces the course of literary journalism and nonfiction prose from its origins in the eighteenth century to today." Writers include: Daniel Defoe, James Boswell, Henry Mayhew, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, W.T. Stead, Stephen Crane, Richard Harding Davis, Abraham Cahan, Jack London, Morris Markey, Hickman Powell, Walter Bernstein, John Hersey, W.C. Heinz, Lillian Ross, Norman Lewis, Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Piers Paul Read, Tracy Kidder, Sylvester Monroe, Peter Goldman, Bob Greene, Gary Smith, Richard Ben Cramer, George Orwell, Marvel Cooke, A.J. Liebling, Al Stump, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thomspon, Ron Rosenbaum, Ted Conover, James Fenton, John Simpson, Bill Buford, Rosemary Mahoney, Lawrence Otis Graham, Dennis Covington, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, James Agee, Martha Gellhorn, Joseph Mitchell, Rebecca West, John Steinbeck, Jimmy Cannon, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Didion, John McPhee, Michael Herr, Ryszard Kapuscinski, David Simon, Svetlana Alexiyevich, Michael Winerip.