Lindsey Hilsum Quote
Hersey, however, was no fan of the fashionable New Journalism practiced by writers such as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. The concept of the nonfiction novel, a term coined by Truman Capote to describe In Cold Blood, his best-selling 1966 book about a murder in Kansas, was, in Hersey’s view, dangerous. Making things up, as novelists do, would undermine the reader’s belief in journalism, which had to remain pure.
Lindsey Hilsum
Hersey, however, was no fan of the fashionable New Journalism practiced by writers such as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. The concept of the nonfiction novel, a term coined by Truman Capote to describe In Cold Blood, his best-selling 1966 book about a murder in Kansas, was, in Hersey’s view, dangerous. Making things up, as novelists do, would undermine the reader’s belief in journalism, which had to remain pure.