Truth.
This contrasts with the Jewish Writing Fiction webpage, which described that genre as Lies.
That requires two spurious assumptions:
- You have to agree that fiction is a lie (and sometimes there's no better way to tell the truth)
- That you accept the absurd assumption that fiction or non-fiction are genres.
Having stated those caveats, and with the additional assumption that non-fiction is the opposite of fiction, we can understand that non-fiction works include, inter alia, the following publications:
- Encyclopedias (do they tell the truth?)
- Do-it-yourself manuals (Is it still non-fiction if you can't do it yourself?)
- Biographies and autobiographies
- Certain history volumes (others may well be fiction)
