Literary critic Barbara Lounsberry-in her book The Art of Fact-suggests four constitutive characteristics of the genre, the first of which is "Documentable subject matter chosen from the real world as opposed to 'invented' from the writer's mind."[REF]
Creative nonfiction may be structured like traditional fiction narratives, as is true of Fenton Johnson's story of love and loss, Geography of the Heart,[REF] and Virginia Holman's Rescuing Patty Hearst [REF].