1998
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-998-0031-6
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“Down with fiction and up with fact”:Publishers weekly, and the postwar shift to nonfiction

Abstract: This historical study looks at the common wisdom concerning a shift in balance between fiction and nonfiction in American book publishing following World War II (1945II ( -1955, particularly from the perspective of the book trade journal Publishers Weekly. A brief statistical analysis suggests that although the collective effect of increases in each of a rising number of categories of nonfiction was to overshadow production in fiction, there was in fact a relatively steady and continuing gain in fiction produc… Show more

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