Title
First Lede/Real Lead: A Creative Nonfiction Experiment Precipitated by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Cites Hemingway’s cutting of the first few chapters of The Sun Also Rises at Fitzgerald’s insistence as an example of effective lede editing.
Published in
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
Date
2012
Pages
230-235
COinS
Citation
Gutkind, Lee. “First Lede/Real Lead: A Creative Nonfiction Experiment Precipitated by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.” In You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between, 230-35. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 2012.