Discovering the Truth in Non-Fiction

Introduction

Welcome to the world of non-fiction. It's not as boring and dry as many of you believe it is. It is the world of newspapers, diaries, letters, biography, and facts. Or is it? Is non-fiction as full of facts as we all believe? Move on to Task One to find out.

What happened, what we recall, what we recover, what we relate, are often sadly different. The temptation is often overwhelmingly strong to tell it, not as it really was, but as we would wish it to have been.

-Bernard Lewis