Forms of Non-Fiction

Forms of Non-Fiction
Essay• is a more or less brief literary work dealing with one main topic.
• Personal Essay is an exposition of one’s personal reaction to a person, thing, or event.
• Formal Essay it may be more objective in its approach to its subject matter.
• The first essays in English wee written by Francis Bacon.
• Addison, Steele, De Quincey, Lamb, Carlyle, Thomas Huxley are the other famous English essayists. In America, we have Emerson, Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, H.L. Mencken, Christopher Morley, and Edmund Wilson.

Biography• comes from the two Greek words: bios meaning life, and graphein, meaning to write.
• It means biography means, “to write of life.”
• Biographies are the life stories of people, usually famous people, or people who have contributed to the world.