Lee Gutkind, Author . Univ. of Nebraska $26.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2194-9
The godfather in question is the author, who was credited as a major advocate of "creative nonfiction" in an uncomplimentary Vanity Fair
article six years ago by James Wolcott, who criticized this emerging field of writing. The founder of...
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Lee Gutkind, Author . Norton $25.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-393-05867-3
Gutkind (In Fact
) spent six years as a self-described "fly on the wall" at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, watching a group of scientists—mostly grad students—try to develop human movement and decision-making...
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Lee Gutkind, Author Grove/Atlantic $19.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1272-9
Novelist and science writer Gutkind ( Many Sleepless Nights ) justifiably argues that the distinctive nature of children's medical care is underrated--and here seeks to redress that wrong by focusing our attention on Pittsburgh's prominent Children's
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Lee Gutkind, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3321-2
Gutkind notes that some 45% of cat owners and 25% of dog owners invite their pets into their beds at night--exactly the (people) audience that will be charmed by his depiction of veterinarians, whom he considers more humanistic than physicians....
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Lee Gutkind, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-393-02520-0
This dramatic, moving account of transplantation patients and the technology involved, written by a University of Pittsburgh professor, is based on Gutkind's four years observing the agonizing hope and despair of the terminally ill who await a...
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Lee Gutkind, Author Plume Books $9.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-452-26687-2
In this ``striking portrait'' of Pittsburgh's prominent Children's Hospital, the author argues that the young receive superior care in institutions devoted solely to them. ``Employing a journalist's `fly on the wall' strengths of observation,...
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Lee Gutkind, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (253p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1469-3
Speaking on behalf of mentally ill children and teenagers, many of whom are also learning-disabled, and only one-fifth of whom receive treatment or service, Gutkind ( Children's One Place ) accuses goverment, social service professionals and media...
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Lee Gutkind with Sam Gutkind, SUNY/Excelsior, $19.95 (186p) ISBN 978-1-4384-3259-5
At 47, writer Gutkind (Keep It Real) finds himself divorced and an "old new dad," full of insecurities about being able to communicate effectively and to relate openly with his son, Sam. Worried that the resentment he feels toward his own father’s...
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Lee Gutkind and Pagan Kennedy. Creative Nonfiction(PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-937163-06-8
The Human Genome Project, which surveyed the entire human hereditary structure, promised to usher in a revolutionary age of medicine. Armed with knowledge of their own genetic flaws, say Gutkind (Almost Human: Making Robots Think) and Kennedy (The...
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Lee Gutkind. Yale Univ, $35 (304p) ISBN 978-0-300-25115-9
Gutkind (My Last Eight-Thousand Days), founder of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction, provides an enlightening critical history of the genre. He finds the seeds of creative nonfiction in such genre-defying works as Daniel Defoe’s 1722 A...
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