Daniel James Brown

Daniel James Brown is the author of "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics." Foster discusses this book at length in Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information" and to a lesser extent in several other chapters. For Foster, Brown is an exemplary author of nonfiction writing because he able to inform the reader about a particular subject in a way that is engaging and truthful. Foster praises the way Brown exemplifies the creative choice involved in nonfiction writing: he selects a structure which is not chronological but one which rather jumps from character to character in order to emphasize the interplay of personalities, stories, and hardships which comprise the core of his subject matter. Structure and meaning are intertwined in Brown's book.

Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of “Undaunted Courage: Meriwether...