Question

What group of writers invented the nonfiction novel?

Answer 1

The nonfiction novel was a creation of postmodernist writers (group). It is a story of actual people and actual events told with the dramatic techniques of a novel. The American writer Truman Capote claimed to have invented this genre with his book "In Cold Blood" (1965). Postmodern authors tend to reject outright meanings in their novels (highlighting and celebrating the possibility of multiple meanings or a complete lack of meaning). They also tend to depict the world as having already undergone countless disasters and being beyond understanding. The postmodern novel can be presented as a parody of the modernist literary quest for meaning.

Answer 2

The choices can be found elsewhere and as follows:

a. absurdist
b.modernist
c. existentialist
d. postmodernist

I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is option D. The group of writers that invented the nonfiction novel would be postmodernist. Truman Capote first started this with "In Cold Blood". This was the age of postmodernism.