Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

哈佛大學的Nieman Foundation成立於1937年，設立宗旨在於推動及提高美國記者的專業水準，每年會甄選二十名美國記者到哈佛進修一年，數年之後也開始招收海外記者，將提昇記者水準的目標擴及其它國家。

本書是由Nieman Foundation策畫成書，特別邀集五十位以上的知名資深記者分享，包括十數位普立玆獎得主，以及來自Atlantic Monthly，New Yorker，New York Times，Los Angeles Times，Washington Post等知名媒體的記者，空前絕後的堅強陣容。

內容除了有許多激勵人心的故事之外，這些資深記者也都提供了最珍貴而實用的建議，從如何找到一個好的主題、如何安排述事的結構、如何著手寫作，一直到如何賣出故事。無論是新進的新聞從業人員、自由撰稿人，或是傳記作家等有志於「描寫真實故事」的讀者，都可以從本書中獲益良多。如同本書書名所述，強調記者除了有專業的寫作能力之外，更重要的是不加入個人的操弄和扁見，說出真實的故事，將人物、事件、場景、思想忠實紀錄下來。

Mark Kramer was writer-in-residence in the American Studies Program at Smith College (1980-1990), writer-in-residence and a professor of journalism at Boston University (1990-2001), and writer-in-residence and founding director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University (2001-2007). He's written for the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other periodicals. He's co-author of two leading textbook/readers on narrative nonfiction: Telling True Stories and Literary Journalism. He's written four additional books: Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy, Three Farms, Invasive Procedures, and Travels with a Hungry Bear. He's currently at work on a book about writing narrative nonfiction. His website is www.tellingtruestories.com.

Wendy Call is author of No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy, winner of the 2011 Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction. She co-edited Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide. Wendy has served as Writer in Residence at 20 institutions, five national parks, four universities, a public hospital, and a historical archive. She writes and edits nonfiction, translates Mexican poetry and short fiction, and works as a teacher at Richard Hugo House and Goddard College. Before turning to full-time word-working in 2000, she devoted a decade to work for social change organizations in Boston and Seattle. The daughter of a middle-school math teacher and a career Navy officer from Michigan, Wendy grew up on and around military bases in Florida, Pennsylvania, southern California, and southern Maryland. She lives and works in Seattle.