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In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, ´literary,´ and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life.

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1. Journalists Challenging the Boundaries of Journalism and Fiction 2. Artful Falsehoods and the Constraints of the Journalist´s Life 3. Hemingway as Seeker of the ´Real Thing´ and the Epistemology of Art 4. The Funhouse Mirror: Journalists Portraying Journalists in Their Fiction

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"Underwood´s impressive study is a testament to the evolution of scholarship in artistic nonfiction . . . [He] deftly addresses several themes that are essential to ongoing conversations about American literature and literary journalism . . . [The book] embodies meticulous documentation, and challenges readers to reconsider the impact of the ongoing dance that occurs even now along the boundary between journalism and fiction." - American Journalist

"Doug Underwood offers a fresh, accessible, and far-reaching investigation of the tensions between fact and fiction, reportage and novel-writing. In its exploration of how journalist - both in and out of the newsroom - engaged a ´story-telling impulse´ in their quest for meaningful prose, The Undeclared War Between Journalism and Fiction stands as an important contribution to the interconnected studies of journalistic and literary histories." - Karen Roggenkamp, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA

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Doug Underwood is a Professor in the department of Communications at the University of Washington, USA.

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